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    HELP! What virtual memory for Presario V2000

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bryan kavanaugh, Jan 28, 2006.

  1. bryan kavanaugh

    bryan kavanaugh Newbie

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    Hi. I just upgraded to 1 GB (992MB) of RAM on my HP Presario V2000. Could someone please tell me what to set my virtual memory to in order to achieve maximum speed? Thanks
    Bryan
     
    bryan kavanaugh, Jan 28, 2006
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    I'm fairly certain that's handled automatically, if there were a setting it would be in the BIOS.
     
    Brian, Jan 29, 2006
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    wipeout Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Virtual memory is not managed by the BIOS, it is a setting in windows.

    You may achieve maximum performance by putting a separate partition for the virtual memory AT THE PHYSICAL START of the disk, and making it FIXED size (you may use partition magic to make sure it is at the start of the disk). Like 500mb, or 1gig whatever .. The beginning of the disk generally have faster access time. With 1 gig of ram, I doubt you will need more than 1gb swap file.
     
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  4. fill2k

    fill2k Notebook Consultant

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    Maximum performance? Disable virtual memory... since harddrive is slower than RAM. Is it appropriate setting? No, unless you have huge amount of RAM that your applications will never use all of it.

    Typically I recommend 2 X RAM, if your RAM is 512MB or less. For 1 GB RAM or more, I recommend virtual memory of the same size as physical RAM... so it's 1GB virtual memory.
     
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