--- Do you guys run with virtual memory on or off? I run with mine on using a portion of the 60G ATA drive.It says available for use on disk: 56839M Available built in memory 609M Disk cache is 8160k. Good? Bad? What are your settings? Obviously i'm looking for a speed gain here.Thanks>>David
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Some programs don't like VM and want it off. With over 600 MB you probably don't need VM unless you are into absolutely huge Photoshop projects. For web surfing and word processing it's probably a waste of time. VM is mostly for trying to do projects that are to big for the available RAM. And can slow down a system if overused.
I always use it but generally only 1Mb over Real memory. This allows the system to allocate memory more efficiently. With 600Mb RAM it's still a maybe thing to do though. With small amounts of Real RAM it's worthwhile. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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