virtual memory

[demarc]

what is the best size for virtual memory in windows 2000 professional.

and where can i find it in to fix it. peace

 

[catachresis]

Rt clk on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance options > Look down to Virtual Memory > Click change (you'll have to reboot when finished).

One rule of thumb is 2.5 x RAM amount. Many moon ago, I was having trouble playing Wolfenstein, and Activision's tech suggested that, as the hard drive was big enough, I should set max and min to 750 megs. I've left it at about that ever since.

Of course, if you have tons of physical ram, you could try conservative swap-file usage and disable virtual memory, but I'm not convinced this is ever a good idea.

 

[LTR12101B]

Ooh! - the Windows newsgroups argue this one for EVER!

2.5x, or 3x, or whatever, tends to be a poor rule at several points on the scale - most notable if you follow a slavish insistence of making it 2.5x RAM when RAM is more than adequate.

I like to set the minimum (in any Windows system) a bit higher than what is observed (allocated, not used, since the allocation is on demand even if not used) during a fully loaded out session, and the maximum to some zen-derived value above that ... this means it shouldn't need to resize in normal use, but can if it needs to.

 

[scarecrow]

The windows default is 1.5X RAM. The optimal depends on your RAM size, e.g. for RAM >1G I would safely suggest no pagefile at all!