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Hi, i have 128mb SDRAM on my machine. Yesterday, i
intsalled another 256MB, which now gives a total of 384MB RAM. The system has recognised this RAM. Should there be a difference in the speed of computer, especially when it loads up? because i cant see that difference. what is the swapfile? before i instaled RAM, the swapfile was always around 20MB, now i aint seen it go abobe 5MB. regards |
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1. More RAM will generally not help the computer to start any faster, since
Windows is loading from the hard drive at that point. The hard drive is the limit here, not memory. 2. The swapfile is your virtual memory - what the computer uses in place of real memory. Now that you've installed more memory the computer does not need to use the swapfile, that's why it's smaller. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm wrote in message ... Hi, i have 128mb SDRAM on my machine. Yesterday, i intsalled another 256MB, which now gives a total of 384MB RAM. The system has recognised this RAM. Should there be a difference in the speed of computer, especially when it loads up? because i cant see that difference. what is the swapfile? before i instaled RAM, the swapfile was always around 20MB, now i aint seen it go abobe 5MB. regards |
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Hi, i have 128mb SDRAM on my machine. Yesterday, i intsalled another 256MB, which now gives a total of 384MB RAM. The system has recognised this RAM. Should there be a difference in the speed of computer, especially when it loads up? because i cant see that difference. what is the swapfile? before i instaled RAM, the swapfile was always around 20MB, now i aint seen it go abobe 5MB. regards Adding more memory can noticeably improve performance only if the added memory results in reduced usage of the virtual memory swap file. Therefore if the swap file is not currently being used to any significant extent then adding more memory will not provide a significant improvement. Before installing more RAM use the System Monitor utility that comes with Windows and use Edit - Add to set it to track "Memory manager: Swap file in use" for several days of normal to heavy usage. If "Swap file in use" regularly shows as 20 mb or more then the swap file is being used extensively and more memory would result in improved performance. This applies regardless of how much or how little RAM is currently installed in the computer. There is a configuration setting that needs to be entered if you are going above 512 mb of RAM with Windows 95/98/Me and there are possible hardware related problems that can occur with more than 1 gb of RAM with these Windows versions. 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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