For example, when I press Ctrl-Alt-Del in my Win XP machine and go to the processes tab, I see a list of processes that currently run in the background. In this list you can see the CPU and memory that they consume currently.
But, if you sum up all this memory from current processes, this does not usually exceeds 100-200MB. On the other hand the pagefile size could be 600-700MB at the same time.
Why there is such a big difference? How can I reduce the size of the pagefile in Win XP?
2006-06-05 15:23:53 · 4 answers · asked by manos 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Elder Geek gives the clearest explanation I know: http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm
2006-06-05 15:29:30 · answer #1 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ok, here it goes
start > Control Panel (switch to classic view) > System > pick the Advanced tab > the preformance section, click settings and pick the advanced tab again,,, virtual memory settings
there you go, change your paging size by picking custom size
2006-06-05 22:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your pagefile sets to 1.5 times your real memory, you don't want to reduce it, the less pagefile the less perfomance, you should read about the pagefile at windows help and understand it, it will make sense then
2006-06-05 22:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by butchell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This site will explain that for you >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314482
2006-06-05 22:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋