At 02:46 PM -0700 06/20/2004, David Dierlam wrote:
--- Do you guys run with virtual memory on or off?

On, always.

Set it to one MB more than your real memory.

The "penalty" for having it on is <1% of your processor speed, if you're not paging excessively. The advantage - it enables a number of advanced memory management algorithms (OS 8.6 or later), so the system requires less memory to run.

- Dan.

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