Virtual memory

[predatowned]

What should it be set to? I have 1 gig of ram. (2x 512). I read that setting the proper values can increase system performance. is this true?

 

[Asus]

Leave it as is. Windows will auto handle it better than you picking one of the many ways people will tell you to set it.
Virtual Memory is one of those things you don't touch unless you need to. If you change it when you don't need to then you might get a performance hit.

The one thing you could do to improve performance is put it on a second harddrive if you had one.

 

[furiousV]

Setting it to afixed value helps with getting it to not fragment.
I have mine set to 1.5X my RAM amount. (1024 x 1.5 = Page file)

There are many theories stating that bigger is better, smaller is better, just leave it alone is better, spreading over drives is better, having it on its own partition is better.
If you got a spare drive, make a 2GB partition and chuck the VM in there and let Windows handle it. It's what I would do

 

[WhiteZero]

Putting the PF on a seperate hard drives allows your to pull info off your one hard drive while writing the info you need to onto the PF on the other HD.
So yah, putting the PF on a differenet HDD is a good idea if you can.

 

[Lahire149]

well a 1.5-2.3gb page file and having 1 gig of ram is a little too much

i'd say allocate around 768mb-1gb

 

[xLostx]

just take a marker to your RAM and write TURBO on it. bam everything goes faster

 

[Lahire149]

just take a marker to your RAM and write TURBO on it. bam everything goes faster

lol

6char

 

[NikolaX]

Setting it to afixed value helps with getting it to not fragment.
I have mine set to 1.5X my RAM amount. (1024 x 1.5 = Page file)

I use this setup, so fix virtual memory for me.