I've reviewed most of the existing pages, and keep seeing some misleading advice regarding pagefile setings.
For best performance, set the minimum and maximum size to be the same - that way, windows does not waste resources trying to figure it out. If you check Task Manager, you'l see that pagefile usage is pretty low, around 200 or 300Mb, so there's no need to be a slave to the 2 x RAM rule of thumb that so many people recommend.
Heck, if you're feeling really adventurous, you could even try out different pagefile sizes - and save some Hard drive space.
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heinz-oz
If 2 or 2.5 GB of HD space "wastage" bother you because you could use it for something else, you are indeed adventureous. Did you have a look at the taskmanager while doing a lengthy render? Why is it that you can notice a marked increase in rendering speed when you increase your RAM from 512 MB to 1 GB or higher if the system only needs a couple of hundred MB?
You don't have to be a slave to the 2 or 2.5 times RAM rule recommended by so many long time users here. Heck, it's your system and your time. You do whatever you feel works for you.
Good luck and have fun.
You don't have to be a slave to the 2 or 2.5 times RAM rule recommended by so many long time users here. Heck, it's your system and your time. You do whatever you feel works for you.
Good luck and have fun.
Pagefile
Perhaps the reason you see a benefit when going from 512Mb to 1Gb may be that you have a whole bunch of unnecessary Windows services running.
I followed Black Viper's services reccommendations when configuring my XP hardware profiles. In my "bare bones" service configuration, I have only 12 services running. Running that profile, with only a P4 2.8c with a humble 512Mb of RAM, I am able to get up to the 89% quality setting when capturing DV to mpg2 without the dread transcode buffer filling up.
Since I have 2 x 256Mb RAM, I also experimented with just 256Mb installed. It makes very little difference to capture performance. I further experimented with the 512MB in dual channel and single channel configuration. That too had no discernible effect.
One other thing I also tried was enabling and disabling Hyperthreading. This had no effect either. I can detect no benefit from Hyperthreading in either my installed VS8.01 or my VS9 trial.
I followed Black Viper's services reccommendations when configuring my XP hardware profiles. In my "bare bones" service configuration, I have only 12 services running. Running that profile, with only a P4 2.8c with a humble 512Mb of RAM, I am able to get up to the 89% quality setting when capturing DV to mpg2 without the dread transcode buffer filling up.
Since I have 2 x 256Mb RAM, I also experimented with just 256Mb installed. It makes very little difference to capture performance. I further experimented with the 512MB in dual channel and single channel configuration. That too had no discernible effect.
One other thing I also tried was enabling and disabling Hyperthreading. This had no effect either. I can detect no benefit from Hyperthreading in either my installed VS8.01 or my VS9 trial.
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