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Originally posted by clocker@19 June 2004 - 12:24
I have read several contradictory theories of how big the page file should be, from none at all to 2.5 times the amount of system RAM.
I have tried them all and can't say that I can see a difference.
Lynx's advice seems the most logical and safest method to use.
Depending on the size of your HDD ( how much space are you willing to allocate?), you can try any of the recommended pagefile sizes and see what happens.
I have read that certain programs ( Adobe Photoshop was the example, I believe) can be very aggressive upon opening and like to grab as much memory as they can.
They will complain/ perform poorly if you have a minimal PF space.
I don't know.
Since I have a rather large and uncluttered HDD, I just made a separate pagefile partition and set it's size ( fixed, as Lynx suggested) to 2.5 times my RAM (1GB).
No issues with this arrangement, and I have so many other things to worry about that I just stopped paying it any mind.
clocker, when did you double your ram :o didn't know you have 1gb, thought you had 512mb lol.