Disable Virtual Memory???

[Ducati]

how much RAM do you need on your system to safely disable the VM when running w98se, w2k or Wme?? or is disabling not a good idea in all cases???

 

[bozo1]

You can lower the value but you can't disable it. Windows will always occasionally use it for certain things.

 

[Ducati]

so if i get 512MB ram running 98se, what value should i set it to?...currently i have it set to 384 with 256 system ram...

i always hear the "1.5x multiple of system ram" rule..sounds kinda high 512*1.5 = 768MB

 

[Techwhore]

What OS are u running

 

[AndyHui]

You should not disable Virtual Memory.

Under Win98(SE), I usually let Windows manage it and leave it as a dynamic swap file. I'm not too concerned about loss of performance. Make sure that you have the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 under the [386Enh] section of system.ini to maximise the use of physical RAM.

Under Win2K, Microsoft defaults to 1.5x system RAM as the initial size of the pagefile. As a minimum, Microsoft recommends the size to be system RAM + about 12MB. This size is to ensure that when there is an error, there is enough room in the pagefile for a full dump from RAM.

Personally, I don't care what the RAM dump says, since neither Microsoft or I can really make much use of it. I have 256MB of RAM....I simply set the pagefile to an initial size of 160MB and leave it with no maximum. I'm not a user of programs that use RAM heavily like Photoshop, so I don't need that much RAM anyway.

 

[ValkyrieKT7]

Yeah. Nt/2000 have a different way of handling vm compared to win98. In 2000, it should scale more as you increase your physical memory. This is because it wants as much as possible for each program working in its own memory space

 

[PG]

Certain programs need virtual memory. Not too long ago I bought the student version of Pro/Engineer. In the system requirements it said that it required at least 128 MB of virtual memory.

 

[Nevo]

<< Personally, I don't care what the RAM dump says, since neither Microsoft or I can really make much use of it. >>



Au contraire. Dumps are VERY useful to MS. You just have to have the right support agreement with them.

 

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