What Should My Virtual Memory Be Set To?

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RedLancerOz

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I Have 4GB Of DDR2 667MHz Memory , Windows Sets Its Virtual Memory To 4028 On My Computer , What Would Be The Best?

Thanks In Advance

BTW This Is Windows Vista Ultimate 64BIT Edition
 
The XP rule of thumb was 1.5-2 X amount of RAM.

With vista.... I don't know.

Do you have a ReadyBoost drive installed?

Unless you are like me and don't want the pagefile fragmenting all over the place then most people that I've asked this question say, "Let Vista manage it"

I'd set the upper and lower limites to the same value.


Just my $1.85($0.02 adjusted)
 
If you have more than one hard drive, set the page file to the one that has the least activity for the best performance.
 
Any reason to really have one at all with that much RAM? I have 4GB and my swap file has been disabled for a few weeks now and so far no issues. I'm using XP.
 
Any reason to really have one at all with that much RAM? I have 4GB and my swap file has been disabled for a few weeks now and so far no issues. I'm using XP.
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Some programs have been known to not work well without a pagefile. Also, if you do ever go above 4GB of RAM usuage, you're going to start having issues. Although, for the average user I doubt you use more then 4GB of RAM. But, usually it's just safer to leave the page file on.

Unless you are like me and don't want the pagefile fragmenting all over the place then most people that I've asked this question say, "Let Vista manage it"

I'd set the upper and lower limites to the same value.
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Usually this is the best. When you have the pagefile set for system management it dynamically allocates hard drive space, which basically leaves a portion of your hard drive fragmeted pretty bad. This isn't really bad, but by setting the upper and lower limits the same you have the same amount of hard drive space allocated to the page file so you don't have that same space all fragmented.

If you have more than one hard drive, set the page file to the one that has the least activity for the best performance.
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That's the most ideal. What some people do is put an old hard drive in their case and dedicate it to a page file, this helps out alot when you go WAY over your RAM usage. Instead of the page file being on the hard drive which you're using, it's on a dedicate 'page file hard drive'.

The reality of all this is that it doesn't really matter what you do. In the end, you'll most likely notice no difference what you decide to do with your page file if you're an average user, which I'm assuming you are.
 
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