New to XP Home Q. about proper size of virtual mem.

[Buddy B buddyb@yippy.ti.ye]

This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
Is a swap file needed at all?
Thanks again.
Regards Buddy B

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Buddy B <Buddy B > typed:

> This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
> The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
> Is a swap file needed at all?



You can make the initial size much smaller--around 100MB--but
don't disable it. There's no advantage to doing so, and it will
prevent you from using all the RAM you have. That's because
Windows preallocates memory that it may need, but often doesn't.
If there's no page file, that allocation has to be made in real
RAM, thus tying it up and preventing its use.

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[Chris Lanier]

Virtual Memory is the same as a Swap File

<Buddy B > wrote in message
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> This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
> The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
> Is a swap file needed at all?
> Thanks again.
> Regards Buddy B

[Buddy B buddyb@yippy.ti.ye]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:46:06 -0700, "Ken Blake"
> wrote:

>In ,
>Buddy B <Buddy B > typed:
>
>> This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
>> The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
>> Is a swap file needed at all?
>
>
>
>You can make the initial size much smaller--around 100MB--but
>don't disable it. There's no advantage to doing so, and it will
>prevent you from using all the RAM you have. That's because
>Windows preallocates memory that it may need, but often doesn't.
>If there's no page file, that allocation has to be made in real
>RAM, thus tying it up and preventing its use.
>
>--
>Ken Blake
>Please reply to the newsgroup

Thanks,Ken.
Should I leave the max the same or make it the same as the initial?

Regards Buddy B

[Buddy B buddyb@yippy.ti.ye]

Yes it is:>)

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:52:18 GMT, "Chris Lanier"
> wrote:

>Virtual Memory is the same as a Swap File
>
><Buddy B > wrote in message
...
>> This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
>> The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
>> Is a swap file needed at all?
>> Thanks again.
>> Regards Buddy B
>

Regards Buddy B

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Buddy B <Buddy B > typed:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:46:06 -0700, "Ken Blake"
> > wrote:
>
>>In ,
>>Buddy B <Buddy B > typed:
>>
>>> This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
>>> The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
>>> Is a swap file needed at all?
>>
>>
>>
>>You can make the initial size much smaller--around 100MB--but
>>don't disable it. There's no advantage to doing so, and it will
>>prevent you from using all the RAM you have. That's because
>>Windows preallocates memory that it may need, but often
doesn't.
>>If there's no page file, that allocation has to be made in real
>>RAM, thus tying it up and preventing its use.
>>
>>--
>>Ken Blake
>>Please reply to the newsgroup
>
> Thanks,Ken.
> Should I leave the max the same or make it the same as the
initial?


You're welcome. Leave the max high. Although with as much RAM as
you have, it's unlikely that you will ever need a lot of page
file, but there is *no* penalty for leaving the max high; having
it there just in case you ever need it doesn't hurt.

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