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02-09-2003, 06:46 AM
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Virtual memory annoyance
I have recently formatted my HDD and installed Windows XP (clean install)
I have 512MB DDR RAM, and have a 100MB swap file Windows tries to make my swap file bigger as soon as the system wants to use roughly 220MB RAM or more I get the error message and it whacks the swap file up to 440MB. What's the point? Thanks,
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02-09-2003, 08:43 AM
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Hi fatboyjim,
Don't know much about XP, but a good "Min" number is 384MB on my Win 98.2 boxes with 512 RAM. TwoRails |
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02-09-2003, 09:09 AM
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OK, thanks I'll try it
It just seemed very strange to me that the machine was using 240MB of RAM out of 612 including swap, and it wanted more... Maybe it's just greedy Jim |
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02-09-2003, 06:59 PM
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I think letting Windows manage in XP is a better idea than fixing the size. I used to fix the size or even eliminate it under the older OS's. But it always causes me problems with XP so I just let WIndows take care of it.
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