RAM upgrade.

[JJ Neff]

A good rule of thumb is to make the Pagefile a little bit larger than the
amount of physical memory in WindowsNT (may be applicalbel to Windows 9X) Make
it at least Memory + 1MB if you want to get memory dumps and the like.

I don't recall ever messing with the pagefile on a Win9X box but always hard
set it on Servers.

Also on servers set the size and the max size the same to avoid the delay and
fragmenting from Windows creating new page files.

JJN
--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Windows does what Windows does.  Actually, windows will try to dynamically
> size
> the pagefile based on what it is doing at any point.  The problem with that
> is
> that the pagefile gets fragmented all over the drive.  The best thing to do
> is
> to defrag the drive, create a new pagefile with a fixed size, enable it and
> then delete the dynamic pagefile.  This will create a contiguous pagefile. 
> If
> the machine hits the pagefile a lot, a significant improvement in performance
> will be realized.
> 
> Cheers!
> Bob
> 
> --- "Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com> wrote:
> > Bob
> > 
> >  Does that work for Winblows 2000 also? I know  windozes  automatically
> > adjusts to the amout of ram but you can also increase it even more.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Meyer [mailto:meyer_rm at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:58 PM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: Re: RAM upgrade.
> > 
> > 
> > Because the people that wrote the sizing methods have either been around
> long
> > enough to have the '2*mem' formula burned permanently burned into their
> > brains
> > or they have been around an old geek that had it burned in their brains and
> > never questioned the algoritm...  I still do 2*mem out of habit and
> deference
> > to antiquity :-)
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > Bob 
> > --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> > > If that were true, then why does the install routine just double the
> > > size of the ram for the size of the swap partition? always. I mean I
> > > have had systems with 500mb ram and the install routine wants to make a
> > > swap partition of 1gb. This doesn't sound right to me either, just
> > > noting what I've seen
> > > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:32, green_man wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Mark Musone wrote, On 6/10/03 9:38 PM:
> > > > 
> > > > > You can actually make a swap file and use that as additional swap 
> > > > > space, thereby eliminating the need for adding another partition..
> > > > >
> > > > > However if you added more memory, you really dont need additional 
> > > > > swap space (arguably you need less swap space)
> > > > >
> > > > > You didnt mention how much swap space you had..my rule normally is:
> > > > >
> > > > > < 128M memory, swap space = 2*memory size
> > > > >
> > > > >> 256M, swap space = memory size
> > > > >
> > > > > -Mark
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I was thinking the same thing.
> > > > If you added more RAM to decrease disk thrashing, then increasing the 
> > > > swap partition just makes more room to thrash around in.
> > > > Your RAM capacity should be detected by the BIOS during POST.
> > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf 
> > > > > Of Cyber Source
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:27 PM
> > > > > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: RAM upgrade.
> > > > >
> > > > > It won't do it automatically and you will have to repartition the
> hard 
> > > > > drive to make a larger partition for it to use, you will then need to
> 
> > > > > run mkswapon command. You could, if you have access to them ( i have 
> > > > > some here in the shop) use a small say 500mb disk drive and use it 
> > > > > entirely for the swap partition ( you will need to make the change in
> 
> > > > > your /etc/fstab file, as well as running the mkswapon command after
> > > > > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 20:44, David Mangani wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > > I recently upgraded the ram in my desktop from 128MB to 256MB ( much
> > less
> > > 
> > > > >
> > > > >disk thrashing ). I am Running RH9 and was simply wondering, does RH
> > pick
> > > up 
> > > > >
> > > > >this change and adjust the swap size or do I need to do that manually 
> > > > >
> > > > >somehow.
> > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > >TIA
> > > > >
> > > > >Dave
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com
> > <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>>
> > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > >
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > > 
> > 
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