Swap File/ Virtual Memory

I have been told letting windows manage virtual memory slows down the
system. Is this true and what is the recommended minimum and maximum sizes
if I specify them myself. The system has 256 Meg Ram but 16 meg are eaten up
by onboard video. Thank You, Dave

Jerry
Tue Sep 21 16:59:22 CDT 2004

Once upon a time, and many moons ago, the procedure was to make the swap
file one size - 2½ times the RAM. Many folks will agree and disagree with
that but that's what I did back in the days of 95, 98, SE, and ME.

"Dave" <spamblows@yourmailbox.com> wrote in message
news:Bd14d.6510$Qv5.5661@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
>I have been told letting windows manage virtual memory slows down the
> system. Is this true and what is the recommended minimum and maximum
> sizes
> if I specify them myself. The system has 256 Meg Ram but 16 meg are eaten
> up
> by onboard video. Thank You, Dave
>
>

Mart
Tue Sep 21 17:24:21 CDT 2004

You may wish to consider Jim Eshelman's article on memory management
issues:-
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm


Mart


"Dave" <spamblows@yourmailbox.com> wrote in message
news:Bd14d.6510$Qv5.5661@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
>I have been told letting windows manage virtual memory slows down the
> system. Is this true and what is the recommended minimum and maximum
> sizes
> if I specify them myself. The system has 256 Meg Ram but 16 meg are eaten
> up
> by onboard video. Thank You, Dave
>
>

Ron
Tue Sep 21 22:06:09 CDT 2004

"Dave" <spamblows@yourmailbox.com> wrote:

>I have been told letting windows manage virtual memory slows down the
>system. Is this true and what is the recommended minimum and maximum sizes
>if I specify them myself. The system has 256 Meg Ram but 16 meg are eaten up
>by onboard video. Thank You, Dave
>

What you were told is totally untrue. Leave the virtual memory
settings alone and let Windows manage things.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

Dean
Thu Sep 23 00:49:24 CDT 2004

If you are finding your system may be running slower
lately, have you run the 'defragment' utility?
You may want to run 'disk cleanup' as well before
running 'defrag'.

Dean
>-----Original Message-----
>You may wish to consider Jim Eshelman's article on memory
management
>issues:-
>http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm
>
>
>Mart
>
>
>"Dave" <spamblows@yourmailbox.com> wrote in message
>news:Bd14d.6510$Qv5.5661@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
>>I have been told letting windows manage virtual memory
slows down the
>> system. Is this true and what is the recommended
minimum and maximum
>> sizes
>> if I specify them myself. The system has 256 Meg Ram
but 16 meg are eaten
>> up
>> by onboard video. Thank You, Dave
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>