Cheryl,
I think you'll find you haven't "lost a large chunk of what [you] gained,"
if you figure out how to best use what you have.
Since RAM is several orders of magnitude faster than disk ("virtual
memory"), it makes good sense to turn virtual memory off and, as much as
possible, let information reside in the faster RAM storage, rather than
swapping it out to disk.
However, not using VM will make your system load more of each program into
memory at launch, so you will want to increase your memory allocations for
hogs like Netscape or Word.
You also have plenty of memory for a RAM disk, so instead of mirroring
memory on disk (from faster to slower), you can mirror disk in memory (from
slower to faster!) Put your all-day apps in the RAM disk, and your system
will feed snappier.
(But resist the temptation to put _any_ written-to files in the RAM disk...
or you will surely have an unexpected power outage <lopsided grin>.)
HTH,
-- Joshua
On 4/26/04 6:32 PM, "Cheryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> I maxed out the memory on my 8500 tonight, going from 608 megs to 1 gig. Now
> the memory control panel says I have too much memory to enable virtual
> memory (which I had on for file-mapping), so I have lost a large chunk of
> what I gained! Any work-arounds?
>
> Cheryl
>
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