do u use virtual memory?

[34erd]

Virtual memory saved my ass on my old dell with 256 mb of RAM. I was running a 3 Gb PF

I dont know how many I'm running right now but its XP default.

 

[lee101]

i've got 1 gig actual ram, then 1.5 virtual, plenty for me and i#ve never seen any out of memory things, at the moment i am using 704 pf, and thats with 64 processes, 13 windows, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks and flash open, and then the tv tuner app

Lee

 

[jancz3rt]

Hehe

I have had the PF on when I had 1GB. However, as soon as I got 2GB, I have disabled it and have yet to run out.

JAN

 

[magicman]

I have had the PF on when I had 1GB. However, as soon as I got 2GB, I have disabled it and have yet to run out.

Jan, i'll be moving up to 2GB very soon. What sort of performance increase will I see by disabling it?

 

[Motoxrdude]

With 1gb of ram i usually never use that much. I only play farcray, BF vietnam and WoW. THe most apps i ever have running is my av, firefox, adware SE Pro, and itunes, so i am in the clear.

 

[holyjunk]

ok i got 256mb of ram and i got 3.88gb of hard drive space left how much do u think i should enable -i dont need that much harddrive space dont worry

 

[maroon1]

i have 768MB as intial virtual memory and 1.5GB max

 

[stalex111]

I don't but i really should, i will now.
EDIT: This is my 500th post!

 

[magicman]

I don't but i really should, i will now.
EDIT: This is my 500th post!

Well, the origional post wasn't but the edit was...

Congrats.

 

[Drastik]

Dont need to, 1gb is more than enough for xp. Even much much more than fi yuo were to use 98.

 

[Chris Chan]

I multitask heavily, i have it enabled on my D: drive. Windows manages the size, iirc it's like 650MB.

 

[kof2000]

Jan, i'll be moving up to 2GB very soon. What sort of performance increase will I see by disabling it?

windows boot faster, once u once anything once it will be almost instant if you run it again.

 

[Geoff]

once u once anything once it...

That made alot of sense

I'll try turning it off and see what happens.

 

[jancz3rt]

Jan, i'll be moving up to 2GB very soon. What sort of performance increase will I see by disabling it?

I say it's a wise choice especially when you work with RAM intensive aps such as many modern games, when you ALT-TAB a lot and obviously graphics work. I had one GB and there were times when it would not be enouugh, so really it's a safety margin that I like to have. Should any AP need more, it's there. In terms of general performance however, you will notice very little, if anything, yet it is true that Windows boots up faster. The main difference is that the PF is no longer used. Remember that the PF acts as virtual RAM in case your PC runs out of it. However, it is way slower than physical RAM and that's where you would notice a difference.

JAN

 

[magicman]

Thanks Jan.

 

[WeatherMan]

I use 1.5Gb RAM and 1.5 virtual