512mb, WHAT TO DO IN WIN2k!

[SXMP]

Aight guys. I, (like everyone one of you out there) have upgraded myself to a nice hefty 512mb of some cheap generic ram. Now, I run win2k. I don't want win2k to EVER make a swap file on my hd. I have read somewhere a while back the registry hack/edit that allows optimal use of your 512mb of ram (ive searched but cant find it ) So, ne one with any help would be cool. Just looken to get the most out of that ram.

 

[Biggs]

Type ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 under 386 Enh in your system.ini file.

 

[badguy]

I think Win2k can manage your 512M Ram very competently. You don't need any manual tweaking.

 

[Mule]

Biggs, NO NO!!!

That's only for Win 98/ME

 

[SXMP]

So, no manual tweaks for win2k? aighty. thnx

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Just set the virtual memory to 256MB min/max.

 

[Biggs]

Argh, sorry this is what I meant,

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Memory Management

DisablePagingExecutive=1

 

[fitzhue]

With 512mb of RAM, you shouldn't need a 256mb pagefile. With 512mb of ram its unlikely that you'll even swap to your hard drive at all. You might want to set it to 128mb or even none.

 

[fitzhue]

Biggs, couldn't find that key under Control or anywhere for that matter

 

[PG]

NOOOOOOO!!!

Some types of CAD software need a swap file or they won't run. I know PTC states that Pro/Engineer needs a swapfile of at least 128 MB just to run.

Now, maybe you won't ever run Pro/Engineer since even the student version costs $300, but you might run into a few programs that need a swap file. In your troubleshooting you'll never guess that the program just needs a swap file. Some programs might not even state that they need it even though they really do.

 

[kroc]

In fact Win 2k will NOT run without a swap file. On boot it creates an "emergency" swap file of about 10% of RAM (at least mine goes to 20 meg on boot up).

Disable page executive is one tweak... (As Biggs said)but it's like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=1
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DisablePagingExecutive -- When enabled, this will disable paging the NT Executive files to the hard disk and force them to remain resident in the RAM. Enabling this setting will increase overall system performance, but it is only recommended for people with 128 MB of RAM or more because of the load that it puts on your system RAM
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You can also try:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"LargeSystemCache"=1
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LargeSystemCache ? Enabling this setting puts as much of your OS (kernel) in memory at one time as possible. The important thing to remember about this setting is that it is a different system cache from the file system cache (vcache) in Win9x ? it is actually a cache for your system files. Setting this up gives the kernel all of the extra RAM (minus about 4 MB) that isn't being used by the rest of the system for active file pages (active file pages being the portions of memory being used by other programs running on your system at the same time)
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got this here>>>
Win 2 k Mem tweaks

 

[fitzhue]

Wow great info, thanks guys

 

[SXMP]

awesome! thnx!

 

[rigmah]

i have 256 ram but in my c drive there is a 360 meg pagefile.sys.

Can i just delete this file or what? how can i set windows to make a smaller page file

Im using win2k

rigmah

 

[SuperFreaky]

right click on my computer->properties->advanced tab->performance options->change-> set it to whatever you want!

 

[andrey]

Let Windows2000 manage its own memory, it does pretty good job in it.