Swapfile and WinXP.

[howesey]

Is there an equiv to ConservativeSwapfileUsage for WinXP. I'm fed up with XP sending half the data to my RAM and half to my swapfile. photoshop is getting real friggin anoying!!

 

[NogginBoink]

Howesy, you have no way to determine what data the OS is swapping out to disk. You're jumping to the conclusion that it's swapping out your data, but it could equally as well be swapping out code to make more room for your data.

The memory manager in Win XP is *very* mature. It's been around since the NT 3.5 days and has been written and improved upon by some *very* smart people.

If you're finding performance problems when using Photoshop, the most likely cause is simply that you don't have enough RAM to adequately support what you're trying to do on the machine. (And unless you get perfmon data, we can argue this back and forth with no resolution.)

The only control XP gives you over the pagefile is in System control panel, on the Advanced tab, click Performance Settings. On the Advanced tab, click "programs" in both frames.

You'll probably have to reboot to get those settings to take effect.

 

[howesey]

Ok.

I have 384MBs RAM

This is whats happening. If, say I was to load a 100MB into photoshop, before PS is loaded there is 300MBs of RAM empty (as there is). When I load this 100MB file the system loads it from the HD and into the RAM (can see this being done in Winodws Task Manager and WinTaskss4 Pro) and there is 180MBs free, then the HD kicks in and the memory used by PS in the RAM gets to about 20MBs and Task Manager says it has 120MBs in the swapfile which wasn't there originally.


I just wan't to know, is there an equiv to ConservativeSwapfileUsage in XP, and if there is what is it?