Problem with paging file in Windows 2000

[vertigo]

Disabling virtual memory completely usually has the nice effect of making your computer take a year to do anything though, so don't be surprised if you have to wait a while to boot

[SubparMario]

The size of the page file shouldn't really be related to the amount of RAM in the system. If you had 64MB of RAM then, at 2.5 x RAM, the page file would only be 160MB, which is no where near enough. If you had 2GB of RAM then you'd probably be wasting 5 gigs of HDD space for a page file. I'd do something like set a fixed size page file so that the total size of physical RAM + page file = 2.5 GB or something.

[vertigo]

The size of the page file shouldn't really be related to the amount of RAM in the system. If you had 64MB of RAM then, at 2.5 x RAM, the page file would only be 160MB, which is no where near enough. If you had 2GB of RAM then you'd probably be wasting 5 gigs of HDD space for a page file. I'd do something like set a fixed size page file so that the total size of physical RAM + page file = 2.5 GB or something.

If you only had 64MB of RAM you'd be running a less juicy OS in the first place, like Win95 or an early Win98, otherwise you'd be stupid to have only 64MB RAM.

What ****s me most about OS upgrades is that there seems to be little or no performance boost, but a requirement of 2 or 4 times as much RAM and even more processing power, which takes the piss, no? And that's why I refuse to go anywhere near Windows Vista, because I don't want my system resources being eaten up by a pretty GUI that does all sorts of animations and swooshes even more than they already are with an XP Pro that's as stripped down as I can get it.

[kernow]

slackware, cough