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[Intelman07]

How come i have 100MB free of ram but windows still uses the page file? Is there a point where you have so much ram windows won't use the page file. My page file is 800MB! I have 256 DDR now and am going to upgrade to 512 soon.

 

[SemperFi]

Windows always uses pagefile. NT/XP is supposed to be much better at using memory. If you are using 9x there is an adjustment you should make to I believe to be sys.ini. It has been covered in the forums many times. It might even be in the anand FAQ's.

Semper Fi

 

[wxjunkie]

What's the recommended size for the swap in 2000 with 768 megs of ram?

 

[mikecel79]

Depends on what you are doing. The default is 1.5x the amout of physical memory. With 768MB you can probably get away with a small 256 or 128MB page file.

Mike