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I am trying to understand Ram and Virtual memory. What is
the default setting and what would be the optimum settings for Virtual memory. I am running Windows 98E, 256mb of Ram, 20Gb Hard Drive and I have used about a quarter of my hard drive allocation. When I checked my Virtual memory dialog box(which I have never altered) it reads - Min 0 and Max - No Max. This dosn't look right to me!! Any advice. Jean |
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"Jean" wrote in message ... I am trying to understand Ram and Virtual memory. What is the default setting and what would be the optimum settings for Virtual memory. Just let Windows handle it. I am running Windows 98E, 256mb of Ram, 20Gb Hard Drive and I have used about a quarter of my hard drive allocation. When I checked my Virtual memory dialog box(which I have never altered) it reads - Min 0 and Max - No Max. This dosn't look right to me!! Why not advice. Jean |
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"Jean" wrote:
I am trying to understand Ram and Virtual memory. What is the default setting and what would be the optimum settings for Virtual memory. I am running Windows 98E, 256mb of Ram, 20Gb Hard Drive and I have used about a quarter of my hard drive allocation. When I checked my Virtual memory dialog box(which I have never altered) it reads - Min 0 and Max - No Max. This dosn't look right to me!! Any advice. Jean For Windows 98, 98SE, and Me the basic rule is that "no settings is good settings". Letting Windows manage the virtual memory settings provides optimum performance under the operating conditions encountered by the majority of users. Wtih 256 mb of RAM on Windows 98 SE it is quite likely that you will never actually use the virtual memory swap file. However it is still needed, because the Windows Memory Manager will use the address locations represented by the swap file space to fulfill the memory address space requirements for the *unused* portions of memory allocation requests, and using RAM only for those portions that are actually used. If you want to see some actual information about the current status of the virtual memory swap file on your computer use the System Monitor utility that comes with Windows. It is in the Accessories - System Tools section of the Start Menu but may not be installed on some systems. If not you can add it using Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Windows Components - System Tools. In the System Monitor utility use Edit - Add to configure it to track two items: Memory Manager - Swap File Size Memory Manager - Swap File In Use. The Swap File Size will indicate how much address space the Memory Manager is currently using from the swap file (provided no minimum size swap file has been specified. The Swap File In Use indicates how much active memory content has been relocated from RAM to the swap file so as to allow that RAM to be used for other, currently more important tasks. With your 256 mb of RAM I would suspect that the Swap File In Use will be at or near zero. However if it does show a substantial amount, and anything more than 20 mb is usually considered substantial in Windows 98, then that indicates that you are using the computer quite heavily and that additional RAM would quite likely provide an improvement in performance because of the reduction in the amount of memory content that has to be relocated from RAM to the swap file, and then probably subsequently loaded back into RAM again later when that memory content is actually needed for some purpose. The difference between Swap File Size and Swap File In Use, provided no minimum size has been specified for the swap file, is an measure of the sum total of the unused portions of memory allocation requests that have been issued by the items that are active on the computer, including Windows components, device drivers, and application programs. Hope this explains the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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