I have followed the instructions in the UVS8 manual and set the min and max to 2048 as I have 1024 of RAM. My question is... what does this actually do and does it impact on the performance of my PC?
Spec: 2.4Ghz CPU
2X Hard Drive 60gb 5400 rpm and 160gb 7200 rpm (for capture and video storage).
Thanks
Setting the Paging File size
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GeorgeK
Setting the Paging File size
I have often wondered myself. I could guess it means that Windows does not start changing the size of the paging file half way through a video capture or other video task causing processing performance issues at a crucial time, and/or causing fragmentation issues. I wonder if anyone who actually knows will post a reply?
I do not know why people say "twice your physical RAM size" but I have often heard that this is supposed to be good. And that if you have 3 GB or more of RAM, just turn paging completely off.
I only have 512 MB of RAM for Windows 2000, I wonder how much better performance I would have if I increased RAM?
I do not know why people say "twice your physical RAM size" but I have often heard that this is supposed to be good. And that if you have 3 GB or more of RAM, just turn paging completely off.
I only have 512 MB of RAM for Windows 2000, I wonder how much better performance I would have if I increased RAM?
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THoff
Yes, setting the minimum and maximum to be the same sets up a permanent swap file that has less management overhead -- that's how my system is setup, too.
What I do is I turn off the swap file completely, defragment the drive, and then create the permanent swap file and reboot. This will create a contiguous file.
Using 2x physical RAM is a good rule of thumb, unless you have little RAM to start with, and don't mind the performance penalty for relying on virtual memory, i.e. if you only have 256MB of RAM, I'd still set the swap file size to 1GB, for instance.
What I do is I turn off the swap file completely, defragment the drive, and then create the permanent swap file and reboot. This will create a contiguous file.
Using 2x physical RAM is a good rule of thumb, unless you have little RAM to start with, and don't mind the performance penalty for relying on virtual memory, i.e. if you only have 256MB of RAM, I'd still set the swap file size to 1GB, for instance.