I have 2GB of RAM and an average usage of 300MB at idle. I use my computer fairly heavily with video rendering and large batches of RAW and TIFF files with photoshop CS3. Even under those circumstances, I have easily sufficient RAM to handle the demands. (PS CS3 uses up to 1.2GB, but never really goes beyond 700MB) I've seen Vegas Pro go up to and beyond 450MB, but it's still no problem.
I have no desire to waste time with virtual memory, so I have tried both 'no virtual memory' and the lowest setting possible (16mb)… XP can't stand this and is always reminding me that my virtual memory is too low.
How can I tell XP to quit pestering me about a non-issue? I thought I already had by disabling virtual memory, but…
how can I disable the stupid nag?
I don't get it.
My RAM is always going to be much faster than the page space on the hard disk. I do not experience slowdowns with a 16MB page file.
Why do you think that I would experience better performance by allowing the computer to use hard drive swap space (which was originally introduced to get around insufficient RAM)?
maybe I'll open a different question and link it so you can have a chance to explain.
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1 ΞÅĢαѓєїα (Sagittarius) // Jun 19, 2008
increase the virtual memory to 1GB-2GB. lowering it is actually bad, and its impossible to use XP stable without virtual memory.
2 pbsr0cks // Jun 19, 2008
just raise the virtual memory.
3 inconclusive_conjunction // Jun 19, 2008
You are creating this problem yourself. Instead of disabling virtual memory or setting it to a low amount, you need to INCREASE the amount. A size of about 1 GB should be sufficient. With a sufficiently modern hard drive, swap should not slow down your system significantly. In fact, NOT having enough will cause more slowdowns when the paging stack needs to refresh itself.
XP: "Please, suh! I want some 'ore [virtual memory]!"
You: "You ungrateful little bastard! Now you're not going to get ANY, until you learn to take what I give you!"
4 duaernil // Jun 19, 2008
In your desire to not waste time with virtual memory you actually are. Why? Because you put up a question on Yahoo Answers about it.
Looking at the type of things you are running, I'd say you have a fairly decent internal hard drive (250 - 300 GB) and probably a 400 - 500 GB External. Your video rendering is placing the most strain on your system. Do you really use all that space? Sacrifice 2 GB of that for virtual memory and be done with it. If you do have an external use that before using your internal.
This also occurs if you have too many programs and windows open all at one time. Try closing the ones you are not using.
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