Virtual Memory problems

#1 d1rX

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Posted 29 January 2001 - 06:44 AM

hey

i ran into some problems with virtual memory
i reduced it cuz i been told that Rune editor suppose to run better ....lol
i reduced it from 93-130 to 20-90
it worked like crap...so i changed it back.
but no improvements...programs load so slow i can go make tea or something

specs:

10GB and 20GB HD's, 20gig one cut into 3.
biggest partition is 10 gig and is for win2k
win2k + sp1
athlon 700 + abit mobo, via chip
128 of 133 ram
geforce ddr
sblive
couple of nics

worked fine before but something made me change those fregen settings ;[
i dont feel like reinstalling, i have too much to backup

#2 OLEerror

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Posted 29 January 2001 - 08:06 PM

Your swap file is probably fragmented. If you don't have a third-party defragmenter that will defragment the swapfile (Windows 2000 defragmenter won't) then set your swapfile down extremely small. Defragment your hard drive, then reset the swapfile.

#3 d1rX

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Posted 29 January 2001 - 08:37 PM

do u know any good 3rd party defragmenter ?

#4 Ekstreme

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Posted 30 January 2001 - 03:22 AM

With 128 MB ram, you should set your page file to min AND max of 192MB or 200 if it makes you feel any better

Get a trial version of diskeeper and let it do a pagefile defrag after you set it, this may help

#5 OLEerror

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Posted 30 January 2001 - 04:10 AM

Diskeeper or Norton Utilities will both defragment your swap file.

#6 d1rX

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Posted 30 January 2001 - 05:50 AM

k i just defragged
i had maybe 3/8 out of 10 gigs fragged
badd
although some things could not be defragged
i just have to reboot ;]

#7 jaywallen

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Posted 30 January 2001 - 08:57 PM

SysInternals has a free utility called PageDefrag which will defrag the pagefile ("swap" file) and the registry hives at boot time.

http://www.sysinternals.com/

O&O Defrag (shareware version) will also defrag the MFT and meta-data.

http://www.oosoft.de/index-e.html

Regards,
Jim

Regards,
Jim

#8 d1rX

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Posted 30 January 2001 - 09:44 PM

thanks jaywallen i really appreciate it
thanks for all the posts ;]

#9 d1rX

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Posted 30 January 2001 - 11:29 PM

hmmmm i defraged hole HD with O&O but when i reboot, check disk runs and tries to defrag the pagefile since it has 9 fragments
but then it says: Nothing to do and starts windows without even touching the pagefile
i tried that other prog too but i guess it O&O overwrites the registry with its own....
hmmm is the pagefile suppose to be 9 frags ?