What is a good setting for it to be at? I have 512mb.
I'm assuming you meant you have 512 MB of RAM. :P Try setting it to 542 MB. That was the exact value I had to use to get 1024 MB of total memory listed in Task Manager. :-D
But really, with something like 512 MB of RAM, you should be good with a page file factor of 1.0x.
it depends on your system really..... 512MB? windows shouldn't realy need to swap it should have enough free ram to run suffiecently.... so i'd let windows manage it...
however if you were running like 98 with 48 Mb of ram i've found a 1GB swap file increases performance quite nicley.....
Simple: It doesn't keep in RAM what it doesn't need. The graphics for AIM's control panel ... if they've been loaded once, and are kept allocated, but not used for a while, Windows will swap those out to VM when another program requests more memory.
How stupid, seeing as it does the same thing on 2GB (where VM isn't really needed) as on 128MB (where you better have VM).
What do you think about RAM defragmenting/restoring? I know system mechanic has these two features.... recover does recover some, then defragmenting recoveres a little more..... it seems severely temporary though.... what is it doing. And yes, FFX, especially with undo last tab installed.... since that extension keeps EVERYTHING even though you close the page. It would be far more efficient if it could simply store URLs per session, and how far down the page you are.... instead of caching every site for as long as you keep FFX open.
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So try what Tom said.
i alredy said that :P
Yes, I meant 512mb of ram.
however if you were running like 98 with 48 Mb of ram i've found a 1GB swap file increases performance quite nicley.....
but why does it need to sue it? it has tons of physical *fast* memory lying about, so why waste hdd space??