New to XP Home Q. about proper size of virtual mem.

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This cpr has 1000 MB of Ram and the C part. is 9376 MB free.
The VM is set for: Initial size- 1536MB and Max is 3072 MB.
Is a swap file needed at all?
Thanks again.
Regards Buddy B
 
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You can make the initial size much smaller--around 100MB--but
don't disable it. There's no advantage to doing so, and it will
prevent you from using all the RAM you have. That's because
Windows preallocates memory that it may need, but often doesn't.
If there's no page file, that allocation has to be made in real
RAM, thus tying it up and preventing its use.
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Thanks,Ken.
Should I leave the max the same or make it the same as the initial?

Regards Buddy B
 
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