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Just upgraded to 1gb of ram...

You should decrease the pagefile size (down to about 1GB) and perform the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management]
Change the quantity in "DisablePagingExecutive" to 1. This will force the system to page information to memory as much as possible.

-Por
 
Originally posted by: rnp614
how do you decrease the page file settings?
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Depends on your OS, although they're all pretty similar.

Windows XP:
Right-click my computer -> properties
Click to the Advanced tab
Click the Settings button under Performance
Choose the advanced tab once again
Click 'Change'
Choose your virtual memory limits (best performance occurs when both values are the same, thus no increase/decrease in size)

It is generally recommended to have no more than 1.5x the amount of your system RAM in virtual memory, but with a gig of RAM, depending on what you do, I would say set your page file to a static 256 (more if you're hardcore gamer and/or graphic editing)
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
so, if we have 1 gig, what should it be set to in xp?
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I pretty much always recommend leaving it at the default with Windows handling it. I have used that setting in machines with anywhere from 512 to 2gigs of RAM.
 
Hmm...wat do ppl do with all those extra RAM? Would tinkering with the page sizes actually show drastic increase in performance?

I feel like getting a gig of RAM juz to see how it feelz like....Hmm...maybe someone will donate a few hundred dollarz for research purposes 😱
 
Originally posted by: Bloodstein
Hmm...wat do ppl do with all those extra RAM? Would tinkering with the page sizes actually show drastic increase in performance?

I feel like getting a gig of RAM juz to see how it feelz like....Hmm...maybe someone will donate a few hundred dollarz for research purposes 😱
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Hehe I just wanted more ram for multitasking purposes. And I figured why not have 1 gb so I got it.
 
Originally posted by: Bloodstein
Hmm...wat do ppl do with all those extra RAM? Would tinkering with the page sizes actually show drastic increase in performance?

I feel like getting a gig of RAM juz to see how it feelz like....Hmm...maybe someone will donate a few hundred dollarz for research purposes 😱
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many games? 1942, desert combat, simcity etc all easily push past 512 if u give it more🙂 task manager open on a 2nd monitor would give u correct info on mem usage, i've gone past 700mb usage easy. plus, i don't like having to close all my windows just to play a game, rams too cheap.
 
Originally posted by: Bloodstein
Hmm...wat do ppl do with all those extra RAM? Would tinkering with the page sizes actually show drastic increase in performance?

I feel like getting a gig of RAM juz to see how it feelz like....Hmm...maybe someone will donate a few hundred dollarz for research purposes 😱
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Using a page file can drastically decrease performance, depending on how extensively it is used. The hard drive read/write time is a LOT slower than that of RAM, and combined with the fact that it's most likely doing other read/write actions to the HD at the same time, you can get the picture of how much of a performance loss it would be to have only 128MB RAM and a large page file. I would *THINK* that Windows would use all available physical RAM before it touched the page file by default, but I'm unclear on this, so maybe someone else could clarify and/or explain how to make Windows do it if it doesn't?
 
Games and other programs as well expect it to be there. But if you experience no problems, then you should be fine.

If you run into issues with programs later, keep the pagefile in mind as a possible troubleshoot.
 
Hmm....pagefile? I keep hearing pagefile but don't exactly know what it is....It's the file with information on where each page is located right? ie. if it's the hardrive or in memory??
 
Originally posted by: Bloodstein
Hmm....pagefile? I keep hearing pagefile but don't exactly know what it is....It's the file with information on where each page is located right? ie. if it's the hardrive or in memory??
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Pagefile = virtual memory. It's hard drive space that Windows turns into virtual "RAM". It performs and acts like RAM, only at a much slower speed.

I read somewhere on tweaktown.com referring to Morrowind tweaks last night (unrelated), that a suggested total of 1.1GB of combined RAM is suggested for most purposes. So, if you've got 1 GB of RAM, set your page file to 100 MB - it satisfies the games that require it, without giving much of a performance hit as there isn't too much of the slower stuff in comparison.
 
Originally posted by: LeetestUnleet
Originally posted by: Bloodstein
Hmm....pagefile? I keep hearing pagefile but don't exactly know what it is....It's the file with information on where each page is located right? ie. if it's the hardrive or in memory??
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Pagefile = virtual memory. It's hard drive space that Windows turns into virtual "RAM". It performs and acts like RAM, only at a much slower speed.

I read somewhere on tweaktown.com referring to Morrowind tweaks last night (unrelated), that a suggested total of 1.1GB of combined RAM is suggested for most purposes. So, if you've got 1 GB of RAM, set your page file to 100 MB - it satisfies the games that require it, without giving much of a performance hit as there isn't too much of the slower stuff in comparison.
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OK, having said this....how does changing the pagefile size affect system performance? It still only starts using virtual memory when you don't have enuf RAM....right? So does it shouldn't matter how big the page file is?
 
Originally posted by: Bloodstein[/iOK, having said this....how does changing the pagefile size affect system performance? It still only starts using virtual memory when you don't have enuf RAM....right? So does it shouldn't matter how big the page file is?
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In theory, yes. In reality, no. Download Cacheman XP and take a look at what your system is REALLY using.
 
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