Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Marchuz^:
My swap file is 512Mb. I have 256Mb RAM and i have peaked 516Mb mem usage. I was running Photoshop, 5 Internet Explorer sessions, one Windows Explorer session, Outlook 2000, CMD, ACDSee 32 and 3D Studio MAX rendering a scene...

Well, it didn't go too fast if I say so, but it was still very usable...

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Sounds like your swap file may be perfect for you. Though might I suggest another 256MB of RAM...



Sandoval,

You have a similar setup to a lower demand workstation that I have, however I don't split the swap file in that fashion.

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Regards,

clutch

Yeah, it really runs noticeably faster.
 
And after I got that error message once, it doesnt bug me anymore. I wish there was a way to edit the registry or something to tell Windows how to use the Pagefile.
 
Although I thought it was a terrible idea to begin with, the idea of a Pagefile being located on a RAMdrive has started to grow on me. PROVIDED THERE IS TONS OF RAM TO SPARE. I argued before that having a ramdrive for a swapfile is pointless, and defeats the purpose since it hogs up memory.
 
But, since Windows always uses the PageFile regardless of how much RAM you have, perhaps there is some sense to having a PageFile on a RAM drive. Of course, you would need to have about 800megs of ram to make this truly feasible.
 
Anyways... I dont have enough RAM to try this method yet... but someday I just might. Anybody have a RAMdrive set up with a pagefile on there? How does it run? Give us your system specs when you reply too. I am interested to hear!!
 
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Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sandoval:
Max Cached Icons setting in there</font>

Where do I find such a setting?

How do i make a ram drive for my pagefile? I want to do this


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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2296
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controler
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single peice of software that I actually own

Go into regedt32
 
hkey local machine/software/microsoft/windows/explorer
 
then add a new value " Max Cached Icons "
and set it to 8000
 
 
AS far as the RAMdrive goes... I'm not sure cuz I havn't done it yet. I think you have to use 3rd party software. .. Anybody?

Does this mean that my system will cache 8000 icons now? That seems a little excessive but that is ok I'm all for it.

I tried using a RAMdrive for a lil while ... Win2k has to use software for it (Win9x only needs a few lines of text in notepad). It was okay ... I don't have enough ram to put my Pagefile on there, so I tried putting things like my IE Cache and stuff on there ... I didn't really notice it doing anything real spectacular with my computer so I got rid of it. I only have 256 megs of ram and made different sized drives (from 20-70 megs). It was cool for a lil while, but wasn't worth it for me in the end ... maybe if I expanded to 1gig of ram or something

Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TB99:
I tried using a RAMdrive for a lil while ... Win2k has to use software for it</font>

What software?

I dont know what software.. i havn't played with that yet. Do a search on NTcompatible, as there was a thread not too long ago which discussed this.
 
As for the cached icons part.. yes, that will put 8000 icons into cache. May be a little excesssive.. but oh well. It speeds things up considerably.

my Swap file is excessive....but it works.
 
I have one partition of about 800mb that I had nothing better to do, so I just set it for my swap partition....
 
so I have a 793mb swap there, and a 25mb swap on my C: drive(Adobe Photoshop needs it for osme reason).
 
 
Again, excessive, but what else would I do with a "small" partition like that?

Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sandoval:
Go into regedt32

hkey local machine/software/microsoft/windows/explorer

then add a new value " Max Cached Icons "
and set it to 8000


AS far as the RAMdrive goes... I'm not sure cuz I havn't done it yet. I think you have to use 3rd party software. .. Anybody?</font>

Is Max Cached Icons one word? and what value do i add, a Binary? or just a regular String Value?

[This message has been edited by EddiE314 (edited 02 February 2001).]

Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jdulmage:
there are games that require a swap file no matter what, you should never 0 the swap file or do anything like that.</font>

What games? I run a bunch of games on Win Me and Wistler and both have the swap files disabled entirely.


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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2296
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controler
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single peice of software that I actually own

games have no control of whether or not windows gives them swap memory or physical memory.... it's purely a function of the os...

hkey local machine,software,microsoft,windows,current version,explorer
(sorry, in my last entry I forgot the "current version" part)
 
add value Max Cached Icons
string 8000
 
that should do it!
 
[This message has been edited by Sandoval (edited 02 February 2001).]

Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CUViper:
games have no control of whether or not windows gives them swap memory or physical memory.... it's purely a function of the os...</font>
That's what I thought

Four and Twenty:
 
You like using those "quotes" doncha!?
 

Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sandoval:
Four and Twenty:

You like using those "quotes" doncha!?

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I know I do.



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Regards,

clutch

[This message has been edited by clutch (edited 02 February 2001).]

thats ok Sandovol, been in the registry enough to overlook your mistake.

So is it
 
"Max Cached Icons" or "MaxCachedIcons"

Max Cached Icons
 
 
with the spaces

WHat are max cached icons