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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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Thank you for answering so fast. I will read it.
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"Mathieu" wrote:
Hello! I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting. What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory? This is because of excessively large memory allocation requests that have been issued by various Windows components and application programs. Pretty much everything you run tends to request memory allocations that are larger than what they actually need under normal circumstances. Windows compensates for this by only using RAM for that portion of the request that is actually used. The unused portion is mapped to locations in the paging file. Note that this mapping does not require any actual disk activity - just a notation in the internal memory mapping tables that are maintained by the CPU. You can check for actual usage of the paging file with a free utility from MVP Bill James. Get it from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/ and run it to see how much actual memory content has been relocated from RAM to the paging file. For example at this moment on my own system the Task Manager reports PF Usage of 212 mb whereas Bill's utility says there is 28 mb of actual usage. This indicates that there is 184 mb total of excessive memory requests at present. This will of course vary as applications are opened and closed. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:173727
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Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:173727
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Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:173727
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