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PhantomOSX2 said:Man, does anyone on this board (besides Supertrucker, cozmo_d, & Crash893) know what they're talking about!?! First off. Virtual memory is ONLY suppose to be used when you have low RAM (ex: below 1 GB). The reason why virutal memory was invented is bc Microsoft knows that computers usually don't have alot of RAM, so in order to run programs that require more memory than what your computer really has, it makes a temporary storage area on your hard drive to be used as RAM to run that program. It's like Crash said, you should just get rid of virutual memory with 1 GB of RAM, unless you run like 30 programs at once. More RAM=Less VM should be used (common sense). Whoever told any of you that you should increase your VM with the more RAM you have is retarded (Microsoft Customer Service) and should do some homework. Why in the hell would you need more space on your HD taken up for VM when you have a Gig or RAM??!! Think people. If anything. You should always keep your swap file (win386.swp, the file on your hardrive that holds the VM) static, meaning that it never changes. Like, say that you wanted to be safe, just incase you needed a little VM with your 1 GB of RAM. Well, first I would put the VM on another HD, since it would lighten the load and make the OS faster, and I would put the min and max to 100MBs. If you do that it would never change. Since it would never change it would never have to constantly read/write to your hard drive to change the size of the swap file (which would make your OS slow, realllllly slow sometimes). You should never have a dynamic (shifting, changing) swap file and it should always be on another partition/HD if possible. You should never let Windows handle your VM, ever, if you want fast performance. I can't stand reading these boards and see people giving others bad advice. If I'm not 100% sure in advice I give then I warn the person I'm giving the advice to to have doubt. Either you know what you talking about or you don't, and if you don't go to a site and learn, NOT a forum. There ya go xXxDieselxXx. I think that's the best advice you're going to get on this thread. No offense to you of course.
PhantomOSX2 said:Man, does anyone on this board (besides Supertrucker, cozmo_d, & Crash893) know what they're talking about!?! First off. Virtual memory is ONLY suppose to be used when you have low RAM (ex: below 1 GB). The reason why virutal memory was invented is bc Microsoft knows that computers usually don't have alot of RAM, so in order to run programs that require more memory than what your computer really has, it makes a temporary storage area on your hard drive to be used as RAM to run that program. It's like Crash said, you should just get rid of virutual memory with 1 GB of RAM, unless you run like 30 programs at once. More RAM=Less VM should be used (common sense). Whoever told any of you that you should increase your VM with the more RAM you have is retarded (Microsoft Customer Service) and should do some homework. Why in the hell would you need more space on your HD taken up for VM when you have a Gig or RAM??!! Think people. If anything. You should always keep your swap file (win386.swp, the file on your hardrive that holds the VM) static, meaning that it never changes. Like, say that you wanted to be safe, just incase you needed a little VM with your 1 GB of RAM. Well, first I would put the VM on another HD, since it would lighten the load and make the OS faster, and I would put the min and max to 100MBs. If you do that it would never change. Since it would never change it would never have to constantly read/write to your hard drive to change the size of the swap file (which would make your OS slow, realllllly slow sometimes). You should never have a dynamic (shifting, changing) swap file and it should always be on another partition/HD if possible. You should never let Windows handle your VM, ever, if you want fast performance. I can't stand reading these boards and see people giving others bad advice. If I'm not 100% sure in advice I give then I warn the person I'm giving the advice to to have doubt. Either you know what you talking about or you don't, and if you don't go to a site and learn, NOT a forum. There ya go xXxDieselxXx. I think that's the best advice you're going to get on this thread. No offense to you of course.
strokeside said:I thought Virtual Memory was the portion of Hard drive that Windows used as a secondary memory storage area and it had nothing to do with the ram.
Is this not so?