2GB Of Memory

[Xorp]

I just turn it off because I know if Windows wants to use one, it will do so behind my back.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: videopho

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: videopho
If you wish to argue with me I would *highly* recommend you search on this topic in these forums until you find at least five threads where this has been discussed. Do your homework before you argue this because I'm giving you fair warning ahead of time: The repetition of this topic has left the forum veterans with very little patience. You are cruising towards a flaming fast. it will be a bad one since there are some people on here that really know their ******.


Dude. You do your own research and I do mine and I've shown tips from a reputable magazine and you have yet not. All you have done is to have looked to draw flame on other people. May be it's time for you to relax your attitiude and show us some facts.

yo, he's the authority on this subject as well as forum etiquette...so you better listen to him

Dude...not until he can prove that he's a so called SMOE. Otherwise...can't write on this

i was being sarcastic

Sorry, I missed any clues that it was sarcastic.

 

[Eltano1]

After a great day of fishing, I just came back to see that after all DASFOX has the answer he was looking for. For the rest, we better just end the discussion before it gets ugly, especially with calling names, which is not neccesary.

Best regards to all, not hurts feelings towards anyone (at least from me)

Eltano

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: DasFox
I left it alone, Windows is managing it. NOW WILL EVERYONE PLEASE STOP BEATING EACH OTHER UP AND THIS THREAD!

IT'S OVER IT'S DONE WITH NOW END OF SUBJECT!

ALOHA & THANKS

Good call Das. The mess that ensued from this post was not entirely your fault. This is a biweekly ordeal and it gets worse every time it comes up.

Eventually someone will post the same question again and fifty people will just respond with "!@#! YOU!!!"

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Smilin
As expected someone has now come in here and posted the WRONG answer which is what I was hoping to avoid.

Dude do NOT turn off your pagefile. I don't care of PCWorld or anyone else tells you otherwise. it's absolutely stupid.

Copyright discussions aside - I do give you credit on the tech side of things. Short, sweet, and to the point. Absolutely correct.

Pagefile > no pagefile.

(Surprisingly, even, a pagefile is a performance *enhancement*... something that I could never get bsobel to admit. Remember, unused RAM is wasted RAM, and a pagefile is a place for a VM OS to dump off stale pages to, to free up much faster RAM for other, more active processes/threads.)

Originally posted by: Smilin
As for your particular situation: You should turn your pagefile back on. Did you actually benchmark the performance of your machine after you followed this tweaking advice? I can already answer for you. No, you didn't. If you did you would find a decrease in overall system performance.

The guy that wrote the article you are quoting is an idiot. He has mixed in a few simple truths with a big load of BS.

Yep.

Perhaps a possibly better question is - is there a registry key to disable MS's background pre-paging behavior, or a way to batch it up, such that there isn't a constant trickle of writes to the HD. Mostly thinking of laptop systems and power-saving here. I think MS added some tricks in Vista (also, the HDs with flash memory on them too), hopefully they will add some option for this in XP SP3 or SP4. That's one of few valid reasons to consider disabling the pagefile.

 

[daniel49]

Group hug:heart:

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: daniel49
Group hug:heart:

:beer:

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: vanvock

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
HEY RETARDS...IF YOU DON'T WANT TO ANSWER, THEN DON'T. YOUR STUPID REMARKS ARE NOT REQUIRED.

But we did answer. We pointed him to the previous discussions that would answer his question and more (since he didn't bring anything new to the discussion).

That should be it then...why you are posting 60 fvcking times in this thread i dont understand

Because whining little twits keep complaining that we didn't spoon feed him information.

Here we go with the name calling, who didn't see that coming.

like i said, dudes got his fvcking dildo so far up his ass...

Both the "retard" comment and the "xxx so far up his xxx" are completely uncalled for. You're luck a mod hasen't give you a couple weeks off.

yeah, you know cause the thread was goin real well before i made those comments...:disgust:

You do realize that you have *9* posts in this thread, no? And not a single one of them has been on topic, with most of them resorting to childish name-calling and/or describing homo-erotic sexual behavior?

Just checking...

 

[theMan]

i figured it out! you set the minimum value to the amount of phyiscal ram you have, multiplied by e. Set the max value at physical ram times Pi. this will give you the perfect settings. i have finally calculated this after years of hard scientific study!

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: theman
i figured it out! you set the minimum value to the amount of phyiscal ram you have, multiplied by e. Set the max value at physical ram times Pi. this will give you the perfect settings. i have finally calculated this after years of hard scientific study!

I dunno, I think this could be a Distributed Computing project. And rather than Pi you should multiply by Phi.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Smilin
As expected someone has now come in here and posted the WRONG answer which is what I was hoping to avoid.

Dude do NOT turn off your pagefile. I don't care of PCWorld or anyone else tells you otherwise. it's absolutely stupid.

Copyright discussions aside - I do give you credit on the tech side of things. Short, sweet, and to the point. Absolutely correct.

Pagefile > no pagefile.

(Surprisingly, even, a pagefile is a performance *enhancement*... something that I could never get bsobel to admit. Remember, unused RAM is wasted RAM, and a pagefile is a place for a VM OS to dump off stale pages to, to free up much faster RAM for other, more active processes/threads.)

Originally posted by: Smilin
As for your particular situation: You should turn your pagefile back on. Did you actually benchmark the performance of your machine after you followed this tweaking advice? I can already answer for you. No, you didn't. If you did you would find a decrease in overall system performance.

The guy that wrote the article you are quoting is an idiot. He has mixed in a few simple truths with a big load of BS.

Yep.

Perhaps a possibly better question is - is there a registry key to disable MS's background pre-paging behavior, or a way to batch it up, such that there isn't a constant trickle of writes to the HD. Mostly thinking of laptop systems and power-saving here. I think MS added some tricks in Vista (also, the HDs with flash memory on them too), hopefully they will add some option for this in XP SP3 or SP4. That's one of few valid reasons to consider disabling the pagefile.

I haven't really checked out the memory management in Vista yet. Mostly been swamped trying to get ramped up on the networking before the customer's start calling us with questions.

The biggest reason for keeping your pagefile doesn't really result in writes to it. Apps tend to ask for a memory commit way beyond what they'll use. Windows will map the unused memory to the pagefile, keeping physical memory available for pages actually in use. Turning off the pagefile will result in committed but unused memory stealing physical pages from other apps that are truly using it.

I know some monkey is going to ask me for a reference on that. Just FYI to everyone ahead of time: RTFM, google or go snag a copy of Windows Internals by Russinovich.

I still get baffled where this whole "turn your pagefile off" crap comes from. The tweaking stuff I can understand tho. There are some specific circumstances where it can help (extra spindle) but even then the results on a typical desktop won't amount to much.

Haven't seen you in a while Larry, hope you are doing well!