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What should this be set too in windows XP Pro. All systems have 512 meg ram. What will happen if you set them to high? Thanks
Originally posted by: drag
You can't set virtual memory. It's always going to be 4 gigs on a x86 machine.
Microsoft screwed up the terms in the configuration stuff. It's called a page file, swap space, swap, swap file, not virtual memory. Virtual memory is something completely different.
ecept some data can be shared and the stupid Windows system monior doesn't display that.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
ecept some data can be shared and the stupid Windows system monior doesn't display that.
Would you mind explaining how you would go about implementing that then? Maybe the MS kernel developers just missed something...
If several programs map the same file, then all these instances take up the same space.
But the people who wrote the monitor are hiding these details, probably not to "confuse the user". So you can't figure out exactly how much memory you'd need with the stock Windows tools.\, but the default Unix tools do provide this info.
Insofar the info Unix top(1) provides is better, although not perfect.
Here's how long it takes on Linux-2.6.7 on a dual 2.8 Xeon: