Virtural memory

[mgoldb2]

I been wondering about something latly. If you have enough physcial ram to handle everything would disabling paging improve performance. My logic tells me that avoiding using virtural memory would be a good thing if you have enough physical ram to handle it. Is there any downside of not using virtrual memory if you never run out of phsycial memory. Is there any advantages to disabling virtural memory.

Finally what will happen if you run out of physcial memory and have paging disable. Will you get one of those message saying windows need to increase virtural memory or will the system just crash.

 

[691175002]

If you have over a gig of ram it is safe to turn it off. I don't think it will have any performence gains but if it does they will be very very small because if it was worth it everyone would turn off the paging file. I have no idea what happens when you run out of ram but it will be the same thing that happens when you run out of paging space (which is possible but unlikely). It will probably just not open the program or something. Anyways there is no real point in turning it off.

 

[Praetor]

I been wondering about something latly. If you have enough physcial ram to handle everything would disabling paging improve performance. My logic tells me that avoiding using virtural memory would be a good thing if you have enough physical ram to handle it. Is there any downside of not using virtrual memory if you never run out of phsycial memory. Is there any advantages to disabling virtural memory.

Youll be fine -- provided you have enough physical memory. Whether 2GB is enough is dependent on what you do