Hi Adam In general, I’d say yes. I illustrated how it is done in a response to David’s message. How it’s done depends largely upon your operating system. To be totally fair, I’m a little nervous about advising somebody who hasn’t tinkered with this before to take this step, as one wrong move could spell disaster. But, if you want to do it, and I hereby refuse to accept any liability for damage to intellectual or physical property by following this advice. But go to Control Panel>System>ADvanced>Performance Settings and turn off memory swapping.
You will need to restart your computer in order for the change to take effect. If your hardware is running at maximum efficiency, it should certainly cause no problems disabling virtual memory. Although Windows being Windows, I cannot guarantee that fact. However, as I commented to David earlier this week, the results of doing this in a well-configured and memory-happy system can be startling. I have this option disabled with a machine here which has 24GB of DDR3/1600 MHZ wide-banded DIMs and, as I said, the results are startling. Microsoft Windows still won’t stop creating virtual swap memory files if you go over the 2GB threshold of memory usage and that is why the default Windows setting is “Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer”. Windows also does not always clean out its swap file when you shutdown/restart. Therefore, a cold restart is not always a true cold restart, if you get my drift. There is one other very very important reason why I favour this option, and it’s one which most security-conscious owners of high-end machines might like to consider. Many worms and trojans take advantage of the virtual swap file in order to resist reboots. Therefore, the contents of some memory blocks can be effectively retained for almost indefinitely. Some of these programmes are even clever enough to evade so-called antivirus scanning utilities by simply moving themselves around in memory when they detect that some third party application is on the hunt for them. That is one of the reasons why some antivirus or anti-malware utilities are less effective than others. Many people stick with the freeware utilities and look no further. On the other hand, not all of the commercial utilities are dynamic or intelligent enough to detect some of these newer and more sophisticated infectious beasts, because they basically play catch-up as they chase one another around in RAM, or to be more accurate, virtual RAM. The pathetic memory-management it contains is one of the reasons why I really wish Microsoft would stop burying its proverbial head in the proverbial sand, and its proverbial feat in the proverbial lavatory. We should all urge them to do the long-overdue rewrite. Now, before any of the die-hard Windows fans get upset with me and threaten me with law suits, please don’t think I’m being critical for the sake of being critical. I’d love nothing more than for Microsoft to find a cheap but effective work-around for these problems. But they never will! Reason, there ain’t one! Kindest regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; Proudly Providing Braille And Alternative Format Transcription Services, Plus Help & Support To The Staff And Students Of the Visually Impaired Department at Sunnyside Academy, Colby Newham, Middlesbrough! On 1 May 2014, at 22:25, adam morris <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Gordon and all, I'm running a win7 64 bit machine with 12gb ram. Would I need to disable virtual memory to optimise performance, and if so how would I do this? -- Adam Morris Phone: 02 888 93939 email: [email protected] For email lists I run, visit: http://damorris.com/mailman/listinfo ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected] ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
