Comments on: How to optimize virtual memory (swap file) in Windows

By: Dushyant

Dushyant — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:50:33 +0000

i have 256 mb DDR2 533 Mhz ram. I am going to add 512 mb ram to it. my current initial size is 336 mb and maximum size is 672 mb in custom size in virtual memory dialog box. To which value should i set it now and after buying 512 mb ram? please help.

By: hotdoge3

hotdoge3 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:02:13 +0000

good info as for Disable mic say no i have 1 PC with XP & 2000MB Ram Page off it say 500mb some times will go to 1300mb set at 4000mb Page file 2 Hard disks Page on #2 fat 16 * 4000mb just for Page file only. looks like more ram window just take it all & go look for more. you can change settihg in reg to help it used ram still like page fist Hard drive min is 2mb for event viewer
with this pc Page file is set min 500mb max 4000mb as for PC with 512 mb I now set to 1536 mb.

By: bhushan

bhushan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:33:48 +0000

can any body give answer for these ( swaping is part of virtual memory or physical memory)

By: James

James — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:58:17 +0000

This does not entirely makes sense.

Say you have a newer system with 2/4/8gb of ram (which many these days do) are you saying that 16gb of page file is necessary?
Even with my own experimentation I have found that excessively large min sizes causes excess HDD activity, and that an ultra-low min is good to keep things faster.

On my current system the best I could manage was a 100-2000mb file located on a separate partition on my OS install drive, and a 100-4000mb file on an independent partition on an independent HDD. This gives me blisteringly fast startup times, and relatively fast OS operation. The only downside is that, when running very large games, many files are paged to the second HDD, and the OS has a hard time on termination of the game as there are large amounts of data that have to be erased and re written across separate drives.

However I wonder if this is still not faster overall than a single file on the OS install drive.

Aren\’t there any better page file guides than this??? RAM x3 formula sucks, there is so much much much more that can be played around with to get page files working faster.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:44:03 +0000

Thats Nice to hear about good pagefile optimization comments . but there is one more thing consider page file in windows xp . Windows Xp Pages its Some of Process By default . It is Necessory to Mention about how to disable that if you have more than 512 mb of ram .