[OT] virtual memory

[Ruatha]

Ok Thermo I see your point but it's still misguided.
If you change your page file to 32 M it doesn't matter if it 's anywhere between 16M+1 byte and 32M, it still has the same adress range, so having 32M doesn't make it go any faster than having 30M!
It's not some magic number, it's simply logic.
If you change from 32M to 32M+1 byte it can have some insignificant affact, hardly noticable I'd think but I'd agree that you might see it with a benchmark, haven't tested though, bit from say 24M to 29M or 32M it wouldn't have any aeffect, i e 32M page file is not faster then 24M pagefile.

The reason windows et it to "size dividable with 32" is that it want's the maximum amount possible if it's going above "size divided by 32" +1 byte, but youas a thinking human might hav ereasons not to set it that way.
And I've seen "not even dividable by 32" sizes if the free part of the disk doesn't allow it.
See?

[ August 02, 2003, 08:45: Message edited by: Ruatha ]