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11-18-2007, 08:00 PM
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Virtual Memory Partition
I spent today reformatting my hard drive and re-installing windows following Flash8pro's old guide. I made a 2GB partitoin for virtual memory like he suggested and set it up, but now I keep getting that little popup in my system tray telling me that the drive is running out of memory. Anyone know how I can fix this? I noticed that when I was setting windows to use this partition instead of my c: it recommended 4GB. Should I re-do the format with this number? Thanks for any help.
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11-18-2007, 08:51 PM
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Re: Virtual Memory Partition
You can disable the low space warning by following this guide:
Disable Low Disk Space Warning I actually don't see a hudge benefit of having a separate swap partition, but to each his own.
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11-18-2007, 09:12 PM
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Re: Virtual Memory Partition
Creating separate partitions on the same physical disk does nothing for performance or stability or data integrity. It is only done if you actually want to make a distinction between presentation of areas of storage.
My honest recommendation is to start over completely and don't even worry about separate partitions. Just be aware that everything important to you you keep in My Documents. But if thats not really an option - go ahead and drop the page file size to 1.5GB on the "VMEM" 2GB partition and create another page file on the C: drive equal to the size of the RAM in your system.
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11-18-2007, 09:28 PM
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Re: Virtual Memory Partition
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Creating separate partitions on the same physical disk does nothing for performance or stability or data integrity. It is only done if you actually want to make a distinction between presentation of areas of storage. My honest recommendation is to start over completely and don't even worry about separate partitions. Just be aware that everything important to you you keep in My Documents. [/ QUOTE ] Seconded.
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11-18-2007, 09:40 PM
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Re: Virtual Memory Partition
Ugh, doing this all again is going to take several hours. I'll just change the size. Thanks.
Also, I have 3GB of RAM. Should the separate partition have been 3GB in the first place?
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11-18-2007, 09:53 PM
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Re: Virtual Memory Partition
If you have 3GB of RAM you are hardly ever going to use the swap file. Some people even recommend disabling the swap file completely when you have that much RAM.
2-3GB swap file is huge. It doesn't really matter and whatever you set it to is not a big deal.
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11-18-2007, 09:53 PM
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Re: Virtual Memory Partition
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Also, I have 3GB of RAM. Should the separate partition have been 3GB in the first place? [/ QUOTE ] Yes.
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