A friend of mine was telling me that you can set your virtual memory in a way that it acts like actual system ram, or "dedicating a certain amount of virtual memory to hard drive space acting as system ram."
He said that if you go too high or too low with the numbers, it may affect PC performance in a bad way. I've usually let the PC handle the VM automatically, but if anyone one has dedicated a certain amount of VM to hard drive space, i'd be glad to know where about to set it at, so I can get better performance.
2007-02-27 17:11:47 · 4 answers · asked by twiigss 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Your friend is correct. I actually do the same thing. You'll want to monitor your usage for a few days before you pick a number. You'll also want to run a scan disk/defrag before and possibly after you make the changes. If you find your system bogging down, increase your numbers.
You'll want to change you're virtual memory settings to be the same number for both minimum & maximum. Be sure to run the defrag! That way there is a certain block dedicated to memory and it is not spread across the hard drive. You should see an increase in performance with graphic intense applications.
2007-02-27 17:36:10 · answer #1 · answered by txdavid74 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well the virtual memory is vital to the performance of a PC. you give the wrong setting and ur pc's performance will be affected. virtual memory is like the system ram. the non-essential programs & services and plus running applications are kept there, so it acts like system ram but its bit slow since its on a hard disk. now you can set the virtual memory for perfect performance by following these simple steps.
1. never assign multiple drives/partitions for virtual memory.
2. always give drive C for virtual memory - C is the fastest drive in an OS.
3. do not let windows manage virtual memory - gives undesired effects and crashes...
4. set custom virtual memory size
minimum size - your RAM size x 1.5
maximum size - your RAM size x 3
do this settings and reboot to see the slight performance increase.
2007-02-28 01:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm pretty sure you cant set a portion of your hard drive to act as RAM, your computer will do it only when needed, its called swap space.....besides, virtual memory is exactly that, virtual, not there.....if you could just partition a section of hard drive as RAM, then why would they charge an arm and a leg for 1gig or higher RAM? nobody would buy it if that was the case.....if you need more RAM than upgrade it.....so yeah, i'm pretty sure you cant do that.
2007-02-28 01:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by Wings Fan! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is better to let it be in default setting, where computer allocates virtual memory space automatically. However you can run awc personal free edition to speed up computer
2007-02-28 01:18:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋