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Would it really hurt my computer if I put too much paging file? Is there such a thing as too much paging file? Let's say you have a 30 GIG HD running on a 800 mhz PIII (yes I know, but come on I bought it about 2.5 years ago), and I wanted to put a paging file of 500 or something would this hurt the computer?
So what? I'm running on a P3 500 :p (though I'll be upgrading soon)Quote:
Originally posted by elchulo2002
Let's say you have a 30 GIG HD running on a 800 mhz PIII (yes I know, but come on I bought it about 2.5 years ago)
Sorry, I don't know what a paging file is, but if you mean a file with 500 pages (document) or a 500 Mb file I'm sure it doesn't harm the computer...
EDIT: ok, I looked up what a paging file is now. I see no reason why it would harm the computer (harm as in damage).
i wouldnt go much higher than that but u can, how much ram?
also till last week i was on a p3500mhz also
I usually set mine to cover twice the amount of physical ram I have..
Magos - Its the file the system uses to swap pages of memory out of RAM to disk when its not being used.......hence virtual memory and the illusion that you are using more memory than you physically have
Have 128 but I've put 500 on mine
what do you think?
not needed, more like 300
You should set it about twice you ram amount, Though it woulnd't
harm if you've set more.
That's the rule I've seen almost everywhere.Quote:
Originally posted by Fordy
I usually set mine to cover twice the amount of physical ram I have..
I have 512 MB RAM.
Since I never allocate more than 512 MB according to the task manager, I get a performance boost by disabling the page file, forcing Windows to keep all data in RAM, instead of auto-swapping seldom-used data to the disk.
Doesn't it only use page memory as soon as the RAM starts
to run out of available memory?
Thats a little risky, as i think windows will "dump" if u happen to exceed 512...
Yes.Quote:
Originally posted by Travis Dane
Doesn't it only use page memory as soon as the RAM starts
to run out of available memory?
It will dump useless crap, That's what it's gonna dump! Like pr0n.Quote:
Originally posted by RoD
Thats a little risky, as i think windows will "dump" if u happen to exceed 512...
maybe nt is different, if memory serves me windows 98 will crash if it has no pagefile and uses all the physical.
Wich is very rare! If you're memory is full windows reports thatQuote:
Originally posted by RoD
if it has no pagefile and uses all the physical.
and refuses programs to take anymore memory.
new programs maybe, but whats to say a currently running process cant suddenly spike?
Spike? Listen, Do you have any idea how incredible much 512MBQuote:
Originally posted by RoD
new programs maybe, but whats to say a currently running process cant suddenly spike?
of ram is??? You aren't going to use it up in a million years.
Offcourse it's possible to do so, But then you would just be
fooling around with creating a new int in a for loop 100000000
times:p
even still, i mean spike as in suddenly shooting from say 2mb to 20mb....theoretically.
Aah, Why am i trying;) Memory management was implentedQuote:
Originally posted by RoD
even still, i mean spike as in suddenly shooting from say 2mb to 20mb....theoretically.
already in Win95 pall.
settles that :P
Not enough to run a decent program through a profiler/bounds checker ?Quote:
Listen, Do you have any idea how incredible much 512MB
of ram is???
What do you mean?Quote:
Originally posted by nvoigt
Not enough to run a decent program through a profiler/bounds checker ?
I mean that 512 MB of RAM is not enough to work with if you do more than just homework assignments.
>>> if you do more than just homework assignments.
This is the real point. The answer is it depends what you are doing, but you won't harm your machine by having a larger than necessary page file.
Each process, (on a modern Win32 system), has a 4GB virtual address space that it can use, thus it is possible that a single app may use (4GB - Physical RAM size - System RAM use - some other minor considerations) by itself.
If you are running simple programs, then the chances are the system may run without using a page file at all. If you are doing finite element analysis or surface flow modelling of complex three dimensional figures, you'll be eating memory like a slavering beast, and then still run out working out, in the process, that you really should be using a professional workstation and not a PC.