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Reducing PF Usage

Billgates2, on Tuesday 29 April 2008 à 10:24:55

Hello,

I did a lot of searches on Google regarding PF Usage (or page file). Everyone says to get more RAM to use less virtual memory. Most of those discussions are very old though and refer to 512MB of RAM as being a lot. I have 2GB of Coisar DDR RAM and my PF Usage is at 276 at idle and 750 during some games. Even though I assume I have enough RAM, I shouldn't be using the PF hardly at all if I have unused physical RAM? I set the initial and max virtual memory settings to 4096MB btw. I just dont understand that people say pagefile is used when you do not have enough RAM but it looks like I have enough RAM but PF is still being used and I want to make sure that I am getting the most out of my computer's performance.

Please Help Me.

Configuration: Windows XP
Internet Explorer 6.0

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mike178, on Tuesday 29 April 2008 à 14:07:07

Hello

Try out to set your pagefile size to static. As i know, Windows need a little pagefile of minimum of 2 MB to work properly. So set minimum and maximum to the 2 MB and restart. In the case your windows system must use only the physically installed memory.

If you run out of memory, you'll get a message of your windows system like "not enough memory to run..." In that case, you have to change the pagefile size to a higher value.

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spinderfly, on Friday 25 July 2008 à 18:20:48

I have the same issue. I have mine static as well, but still eats a lot of cpu usage running the page file. Im going to upgrade to 5GB here shortly, Running Vista 64bit(For good reason-minus the divx bug I worked out with the Vista Codecs application). I think running Vista on 2GB is like running XP on 256mb. Also I find that the newer video cards gobble nearly 1GB of the ram which i find a little funny which you cannot ajust for like you could with the AGP apture size setting on the older video cards.

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