Why set it at 300MB?Originally posted by Chewie UK+25 April 2004 - 21:08--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chewie UK @ 25 April 2004 - 21:08)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ROSSCO_2004@25 April 2004 - 14:26
and to solve those virtual memory problems in the future do this:
right click my computer>properties>click the 'advanced' tab>for performance click settings>click advanced>click change at the bottom.
you will now be at a page looking like this:
click custom size:now click set. then go through the long list of OK's, and restart.
- For initial Size type 300
- For maximum Size also type 300
You obviously have 256MB but he has 512.
The debate over pagefile size and whether Windows should play with it has been raging for years; when Windows was changing the size all the time, everyone was saying it shouldn't do that so you should change it to a constant size. That meant people argued over the actual size to set, but eventually it appeared knowledgable geeks found the most efficient use was at 2.5x the RAM installed... which is how XP handles it. The advantage of letting XP control the size is that if more is needed it'll up it and tell you about it. I have only seen this twice when I only had 128MB installed.
He should either set it to 768MB, as Windows would, or leave Windows managing it. [/b][/quote]
I dont have 256mb, i have 512mb...either way, what does that have to do with it? if anything id set it lower if I had more ram
the way I see it, the more ram you have, the lwoer you set it, becuase in theory, windows will need less pagefile... i could be wrong though
edit: that screenshot was taken from my old computer anyway, which does happen to have 256mb, but thats irrelevent, both of my computer are set to 300mb, and neither of them receive nagging from windows about virtual memory.
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