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    Recommended Disk Cache size?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by fenderbean1979, Jun 4, 2009.

  1. fenderbean1979

    fenderbean1979 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had mine turned of on 6860 and was looking for someone who has a 7805 and is running theres turned off. What are people running for best performance?
     
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    oamster Notebook Geek

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    Are you talking about the page file? I have mine set to off... I haven't really came across any problems so far... once steam told me I was running out of memory, but it was only at 50%
     
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    sparkyman2000 Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds right. I have mine turned off. The more ram you have the less cache you want. You dont really want windows Disk Cache running becasue it first uses your ram than uses up hard drive space for all the copies. I actually use a USB with readyboost rather than my hard drive.
     
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    780Cinco Notebook Evangelist

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    Just leave it checked (let windows manage disk cache)
    With 4 Gb (4096Mb) of RAM, it is going to use that RAM first, and thus 99% of the time NEVER going to dip into your HD (as 99% of us wont utlize the full 4096Mb)

    Sparkyman2000 isnt this what most people want...? to use there RAM first before dipping into HD space? If so, then that box should be checked (let windows manage paged file)
    "You dont really want windows Disk Cache running becasue it first uses your ram than uses up hard drive space for all the copies."
     
    780Cinco, Jun 4, 2009
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    Looks like many people don't know how the swap file works...
     
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    780Cinco Notebook Evangelist

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    Wait..maybe I am confused here...So since the 7805 has 4 Gb RAM should I just leave that option (let windows manage) unchecked for better performance? Thanks!

    From another site..is this true?
    "If your system has memory of 2G and above, itÂ’s possible to turn off virtual memory and set no paging file at all. In fact, by doing so, Windows will probably run at faster speed."
     
    780Cinco, Jun 4, 2009
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    sparkyman2000, Jun 4, 2009
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