Ram performance

Hi,

I am using laptop with core 2 duo 2ghz intel processor with 2gb ram. I have a couple of question about RAM performance.
Though having 2GB RAM why paging of file is used in task manager? if no application is running then system should not use paging, right?
When I use virtual machines system becomes very slow and processor starts working very fast, does it mean the system requires more RAM for virtual machines?

Pls advice

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Aniruddha


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Aniruddha Gune wrote:
I am using laptop with core 2 duo 2ghz intel processor with 2gb
ram. I have a couple of question about RAM performance.
Though having 2GB RAM why paging of file is used in task manager?
if no application is running then system should not use paging,
right?

When I use virtual machines system becomes very slow and processor
starts working very fast, does it mean the system requires more RAM
for virtual machines?

Read up on the Page File (Virtual Memory) in Windows XP he
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

Scroll down to "Can the Virtual Memory be turned off on a really large
machine?" *at least*.

And when you run a virtual machine - well - use logic. You told that
virtual machine to utilize a given amount of memory (256MB, 512MB, 1GB,
etc...) - so it does so. It actually uses memory - real memory - so if you
were already using 1GB for running the things you have open and you start up
a virtual machine that you set to use 1GB of memory - if it boots - you have
used 2GB of memory and you said that is all you have.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Aniruddha Gune wrote:
I am using laptop with core 2 duo 2ghz intel processor with 2gb
ram. I have a couple of question about RAM performance.
Though having 2GB RAM why paging of file is used in task manager?
if no application is running then system should not use paging,
right?

When I use virtual machines system becomes very slow and processor
starts working very fast, does it mean the system requires more RAM
for virtual machines?

Read up on the Page File (Virtual Memory) in Windows XP he
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

Scroll down to "Can the Virtual Memory be turned off on a really large
machine?" *at least*.

And when you run a virtual machine - well - use logic. You told that
virtual machine to utilize a given amount of memory (256MB, 512MB, 1GB,
etc...) - so it does so. It actually uses memory - real memory - so if you
were already using 1GB for running the things you have open and you start up
a virtual machine that you set to use 1GB of memory - if it boots - you have
used 2GB of memory and you said that is all you have.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html