| Brian Cryer 2006-09-24, 7:00 pm |
| "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
news:v8m7h25kiiqghubvkn5aqnj8eh18l7456k@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:28:57 +0100, "Brian Cryer"
> <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> The goal is not to have pagefile usage below that of
> physical ram, the goal is to have the least pagefile usage
> possible no matter how much ram.
Agreed.
> The more significant comparison for determining if there is
> enough memory is:
>
> 1) Aggressively use the system, worse case of use with as
> many apps, large jobs, etc, as the system will ever see
> (often enough that one wants to spend the $ on memory to
> combat this use).
>
> 2) Next open Task Manager and compare the "Commit Charge",
> "Peak" value to the "Physical Memory", "Total" value. The
> Peak should always be lower than the Total, by even a few
> hundred MB more if you want enough free memory for a
> persistent filecache (greatly reducing dependence on HDD
> speed for subsequent access to HDD). If working with very
> large static files, even more will a large filecache help
> but beyond a certain point, some operating system tweaks may
> be needed to increase the default size of the cache
> supported by windows.
> http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/931/
> In some cases this cache change can degrade performance
> instead of improving it, if the apps use a lot of memory.
> One can try it both ways and compare per their use of the
> system.
Agreed. Mine was but a simple rule-of-thumb.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
|