Hi, Well Doug here is the trade off. If speed is what you are going for then restricting the size of the page file is the way to go. ON the other hand. There is the question of stability. If you instruct windows to have let's say a 3.5gb swap file and then you for whatever reason need a larger file windows cannot make it and the system starts to bog down and will crash. My advice for vista users is to let the system manage the swap file. Then get a large flash drive. Us this as ready boost. This is going to be faster than a hard drive swap file and before windows swaps it is going to use the flash drive first. So now under vista you got more speed than you would with xp and no need to force the swap. Hth
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:skypeenglish-bounces at emissives.com] On Behalf Of Doug Lee Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:49 AM To: a list for discussing skype and its use with screen access software. Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Pagefile size and performance (was Skype conference) I believe using a strict pagefile size, as he is doing, speeds up Windows in many cases. It's common advice to do this to improve performance. I don't know if this has changed with Vista though, so in the interest of making Skype faster, which is on topic though admittedly by a slight stretch, I'll ask: Does anyone know if this advice, to lock down the swap file size for better performance, is now invalid in Vista? It is advised for XP, and I have long been doing it there. Editing the history to remove a lot of headers/footers. On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:19:03AM -0700, jim grimsby Jr. wrote: Well this is off topic so I will try to say very little about it accept this. letting the system manage it will use what is needed. This means if it should ever need more it will use it. The way you are doing this is once it is full that is it and you will start having crashes etc. change it back to letting the system manage it and invest in a flash drive. Hth -----Original Message from Chris Hallsworth----- Hi, 2.24 GB was in fact the system managed size. I'm now using 3.00 GB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "aiden gardiner" <[email protected]> > Chris, > > Try setting it to system managed, then the system will automatically give > you the optimal amount of virtual memory for the amount of ram you've got. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71 at googlemail.com> > >> Boosting my virtual memory to what? I've currently assigned 2.24 gig, >> something like that. Thanks in advance! -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh {American Author} Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
