• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

How do I stop Windows from reserving memory for future demands?

S

Sureshot324

Diamond Member
I just read the Page File Guide on the elder geek, and as I understand it, windows will reserve a certain amount of physical memory for future demands (see the link). So if you have 1gb of ram, it will start paging long before your total memory usage hits 1gb.

How do disable this or at least reduce it? I have 1gb of ram, and with several of my games the total memory usage goes to about 900mb or so. These games sometimes stutter while they access the hard drive, and I see no reason they should need to do so and I think it's just because Windows is not letting them use all the available ram.
 
XP uses a true paging file, not a swap file like older versions.

What this means is that the pagefile is commited to equal the physical ram use. Take a look at your commit charge and your pagefile usage, they will be the same.

XP doesn't wait until physical ram is exhausted to page out to disk. There's nothing you can do about it, it's that way by design. It improves overall performace.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top