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Josh1
Administrator 		posted November 15, 2006 12:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Josh1     Edit/Delete Message
Have a look at this To estimate how many megabytes your paging file needs. Load all the applications you normally use. Open task manager(press control-alt-delete) click the performance tab and find the total commit charge. This is the amount of memory your system is using at the current moment. Add 128MB to this and this is a good starting minimum virtual memory size. The optimal configuration is to set the minimum and maximum to the same size preventing the OS from resizing the file.
For example, if you regularly use 5 applications simultaneously and your total commit charge is 256MB. A good setting would be to set the total of all paging files for 384MB. If your PC has 256MB of physical memory that would yield a total of 640MB of usable memory. LKet us know if this helps or not.

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truthful04
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what is the ideal virtual memory size
for a pc with the following specs
2.4GHz cpu speed
256MB RAM
40GB HDD
Win XP sp2

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