Renderholic opened this issue on Sep 04, 2005 ยท 12 posts
svdl posted Sun, 04 September 2005 at 8:27 PM
10000 MB is a bit much - that's 10 GB! Most applications cannot use more than 2 GB. I recommend setting the total virtual memory size at more than 2 GB, so that you can run several memory-hungry processes (including WinXP itself) at the same time, but 10 GB is overkill. It's a good idea to specify a multiple of 8 MB - that's the usual size of one "cylinder" on a physical disk. Using only whole cylinders for the swap file gives a tiny performance increase.
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