Re: 3GB RAM and it's always telling me to close apps

Greg

You are not making sense or you do not understand what others are telling you. Paul and Ringmaster both are correct and I think instead of you trying to set you Page File correctly let Windows manage it. It will be much more advantageous for you

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"Greg" <greg_68@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:188BEDFC-5961-401F-B1D8-153CBBAB70AA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Ringmaster" <bigtop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You start out saying your Page file is "using" 3.2 GB. then later you
say your swap file is SET to only 512 MB. For most people the paging
file should be 1.5 times the size of your physical RAM, you got yours
set to less than 20% of your RAM. That's crazy! Reset it so it is 4.5
GB or just let Vista manage it's size which means it will grow and
shrink as needed.

I'll wager what is happening is there isn't enough contiguous space on
your root drive for your page file to expand to use as much space as
it is starved for. Accordingly it is forced to use a tiny space of
what's roped off for it's use and that is what is causing the sluggish
performance and drive trashing. If so, you need to correct this in two
steps. Remember the paging file MUST have contiguous space. It makes
no difference how much is set aside for it if they space is fragmented
it can only use the biggest portion of it that's contiguous. To
remedy:

1. First totally kill the paging file so you have none at all.

2. Next do a full defrag of your root drive (C). Since you killed
the paging file in step one, this should free up your entire
hard drive allowing you to reset the size of the paging file
and be able to use all the space you assign to it.

3. Now reset the paging file to 4.5 GB or just let Vista manage it.

Remember to reboot when instructed. You should see a dramatic boost in
performance IF this was the issue.


That's because of instead of saying how it technically is, I said it the way
it's represented in Task Manager (thank you Microsoft). In Task Manager,
they're combining both physical memory and swap file into one value called
"Page File". I have my swap file set at 512MB, setting it higher causes
poor performance (hard drive is slower than RAM), not to mention what the
hell does it need 3GB+ of swap space for? I'm not setting it that high, I'd
rather reboot than run all of my apps with its memory in the swap file
(that's where my performance issues are from).

If I'm getting out of memory issues with 3GB of physical RAM and a 512MB
swap file, setting the swap file higher will obviously stop that happening.
My issue is with it using that much to start with. I have the same problem
on my laptop, which has 4GB of physical memory, just takes longer. Maybe
I'll just go back to XP where I was consuming less than 1.8GB of RAM and had
my swap file set the same. I was hoping there would be some other solution
to this.


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