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Old August 1st, 2003, 09:26 AM
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Default Re: [OT] virtual memory

The configuration of virtual memory even depends on your Version of windows. i think windows xp can even manage multiple page-files.

On rule to speed up things is: if you have two drives, put them on different controllers. Put your resource-consuming application to the drive where the page file is NOT. So using the page file and reloading software components won't interfere.

It is not a good solution to turn of the virtual memory. If you run multiple applications, your system will soon need it. Btw: Windows usually writes first the data to disk, that appears to be less important( e.g. idle apps etc )

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All things ram are done in 32’s, 32-64-128-256-512-1024. Try to work the page file size in the same increments. It eases the addressing load on the CPU.
I think the cpu runs in protected mode anyways. So every address is 32-Bit. There are no more "far" and "short" jumps. the cpu accesses each (even)adress at the same speed.

[ August 01, 2003, 08:37: Message edited by: JoeViterbo ]
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