Need Suggestions Please?

My win2000 is running great without any tweak settings BUT was worried about the "pagefile getting to 1.5 gigs" and the "registry getting to 20 megs "......

I assume that i better leave the registry alone but because the OS is running with ton's of space....the pagefile is getting very large and think i could work on that if i had suggestions for a good setting.

Thx
k

 

MS tells me that 1 1/2 times ram is right so it's ok......

Bye
k

 

1.5 times RAM is strictly a rule-of-thumb sort of value.

In general, the more physical memory you have, the less virtual memory (pagefile) you are likely to need.

The system I'm on now (at work) has only 128Mb of physical memory. I have open vantive (a trouble-call tracking database), hyena (a network management program), 2 IE windows, OutlookXP, Word /w 2 docs, Excel /w 2 workbooks, Access /w a dB, and a few other odds and ends. I'm using around 200Mb of pagefile. So in this case, 1.5 times RAM is a good idea. But if I had 512Mb of RAM, I wouldn't need nearly the amount of virtual memory since physical memory could easily handle the maximum amount of stuff I'd be likely to run at any given time.

My best suggestion for pagefile sizing is to have task manager in your startup folder and check it from time to time. It will maintain numbers for max and min amounts used. Figure out how much you use at maximum load and add a bit extra for safety.

As to the max registry size, the numbers involved are so small that allowing plenty of extra space is pretty much a non-issue.

 

Interesting;
So how do i put task manager in the startup folder?? drag what to the folder or what?

About Ram, i have 1 gig of pc800 rdram......what would be a good suggestion for my page-file ?

Thx
k

 

Start up...

knucles,
You can just drag a shortcut into your start up folder. Just grab the shortcut from the taskbar, make sure to right click it, that way you won't take the link off the taskbar. I'll let Newt give advice on the size of your page file. I've only had Win2k for a few months and I'm still figuring out a lot of things. Later.

B

 

Hummm, i'm back to ground zero

(1) "Task Manager" Is it (taskman.exe) i've been able to find this in the winnt folder and i double click it and it does nothing......so i need advice on how to use it to preform the above mentioned task.....if that's even it.

(2) "pagefile" haven't heard a thing from Newt or anyone....so I assume this has to wait for this taskmanager thing.

Thx
k

 

Knuckles - taskmgr.exe in windows\system32 (or winnt\system32 or whatever). Just make a shortcut to it in your startup folder.

Whatdaya mean ya haven't heard anything about pagefile. I wrote a short novel on it in this thread.

It needs to be big enough to handle the maximum amount of stuff your PC is likely to want to put in it and a little more. And you can either guess (1.5 x RAM), make it plenty large (well shucks, 10Gb should be enough) or figure out how big it needs to be via task manager history. Or if you have Norton utilities, they will do a better job of tracking min/max useage (easier to read any way). Just put a PFU Useage window on your Norton System Doctor bar.

As an aside, you will get somewhat better performance from your system if you put 2Mb of the pagefile on your system partition and the remainder on another physical drive (if available - best choice) or another partition of your Hd if you only have one.

 

No-No, i do appricate the help BUT "How do i use taskmon.exe ?????"

About "Norton ", i've never had a good experience with anything norton.....and don't have any apps. of there's..

And yes, i have 3 scuzzies with lots of partitions.

Thx
k