I just disabled virtual memory and...

I just disabled virtual memory and my laptop is noticeably faster! It is also using about 300mb less ram which i thought was weird.

Anyone else have similar experiences?

 

don't have the guts to try this out,
because from what I heard in this forum,
people's opinion of doing this tweak is half positive, half negative.

 

Yeah, i was always afraid to before also...but i figured i would try and use my 3gb of ram. Maybe i will try and load as many programs as i can and see what happens.

If i don't report back send a search party

 

Windows is sometimes flaky with no virtual memory, but it's quite common to do that on Unix/Linux systems. Some applications on Windows (Photoshop in particular) will get quite upset without any swap enabled, even if they don't actually need it. Glad to hear it works for you, though... things may be better since I last did that with WinXP. I haven't tried it with Vista.

 

hmmm might want to try it

 

Gary is going to want to see real numbers.

 

he just don't want any of us get into trouble for applying tweaks that actually don't work or even make things worse.

 

He wants to make sure people know the pros and cons of the tweak their applying before doing it.

 

I also noticed a noticeable increase in performance after disabling virtual memory.

 

i have my disabled but as far as ram its still high which kind of bothers me..oh well i am considering clean install hopefully that will fix them problem, if there is one.
okthaxbi

 

what's high to u?

 

Alright. I tried my hardest to kill my system by overloading it, but vista managed! i dont know what the heck it did, but it went into uber survival mode.

Basically i opened up every program in had on my computer. It got to a point where i was at 93-95% used and it would keep dropping every time i opened another program so it would stay around 93%. So i was like fine...so i clicked firefox about 30 times. Well this raised the ram up to 97% and then all of a sudden there was a instantaneous drop in ram usage (went to 89%). I was like what the heck...So i clicked firefox another 30 times...well this broke it kinda...aero broke (stopped working) and idk how but my ram usage went down to about 45%. You can see in my picture the 2 drops...thats what these are referring to. So i closed down all the programs and its fine minus aero disabled and its using 750mb ram like normal.

As for the person about photoshop, i opened 250 3.2megapixel pictures into photoshop no problem during this.

All and all i think vista is perfectly fine with no virtual memory, just maybe a poorly written program would freak out about it, but i think my pc passed my torture test

The first picture shows me loading programs still and it hovering at 92-95%

The second picture is after things started breaking and you can see the ram graph with the drop offs.

 

lol @ all those windows.
thats interesting, someone explain this :O

 

I know, I keep a 256 MB swap in linux & I might delete that.. I only ever use 300MBs RAM...

 

very cool test

 

the only thing I can derive from the test is that......
aero can be occupying 50% of your ram.....

any tweaking is useless, go turn off aero and you are done tweaking your vista.........?!?!

 

That's a lot of windows... :eel:

 

If you disable your Virtual Memory, your RAM usage WILL be higher. There's no place to swap data to, so everything has to be kept in memory. That said, Vista uses a lot of memory, period, but it manages it pretty well. Trust it... even though it seems like a lot of RAM may be "used", it's still available if you need it. I can't show you on Windows right now, but I can show you on Linux on my current machine (they work very similarly for memory management, believe it or not)

If I look at my free memory, I have 3GB total, with 1.5GB used, and 1.5GB free. But if I look at the cache, it actually shows I have 2.1GB free... that's because basically there are 600MB of RAM being used for "caching" operations, files I've opened, programs I've run, etc., so that they start up faster if I run or open them again. Vista works the same way... a reinstall will NOT help your memory usage that you see... but don't worry about your memory usage in general. It's not bad, and it doesn't mean what you may think it does. This ain't your daddy's Windows 95... Windows Vista finally has proper memory management.