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xp ram / swap file optimization?
Name: jp80 Date: March 16, 2003 at 10:23:25 Pacific OS: xp pro sp1 CPU/Ram: ddr 1ghz 2700
Comment:
As I tend to use a lot of softwares at the same time, I noticed this pblm: I have a 700mb swap file on my hard disk, and most of the time its nearly completly used, while I still have 500mb free in my ram. And I'd like to know how can I set up windows so that according to the system needs, he uses all the ram first before the swap file? Do I even have to prevent the use of swap?
Name: Tim Date: March 16, 2003 at 10:52:20 Pacific
Reply:
Yes this can be a problem with xp. You can force the OS to swap data to disk only when it runs out of volatile memory by adding a line to your System.ini file. Go to the Run dialog box and type msconfig to open the System Configuration Utility dialog box. In the System.ini tab, highlight [386enh] and click New to add a new line beneath this branch. Type: ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 in the empty box that appears then click Apply and restart your computer. This should reduce the amount of file swap that is occuring.
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Response Number 2
Name: jp80 Date: March 16, 2003 at 13:37:14 Pacific
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well thanks for your tip Tim, but after I tried it, now its still using 500mo of swap and let 400mb of free ram, so can anyone add some other ways to optimize this?
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Response Number 3
Name: amit from INDIA Date: March 16, 2003 at 22:21:02 Pacific
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Dear friend, first make your SWAP FILE of fixed SIZE you can do this by first calculating the size of swap file according to the formula 1.5 X physical RAM suppose one has 256mb than he should fix the initial and max size to 384 from system>advanced>performance>advanced>virtualmemory If you have 512mb or more memory you can disable paging all together by selecting No paging file
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