SDRAM versus DDR

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johny said:
To those of you who want to know how much memory you need. Like General
Schvantzkoph said, "You need enough
RAM so that you don't page to disk."
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Uh, but Windows XP will page things out to disk no matter how much RAM
you have. I had to disable swapping completely in order to prevent it
from swapping out my web browser to enlarge the disk cache when I copy
big files around on a machine with 1GB of RAM.

Moronic behaviour and apparently unfixable any other way: I've yet to
find any registry setting to tell it not to be so stupid.

Mark
 
Mark said:
Uh, but Windows XP will page things out to disk no matter how much RAM
you have. I had to disable swapping completely in order to prevent it
from swapping out my web browser to enlarge the disk cache when I copy
big files around on a machine with 1GB of RAM.
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Disabling swapping altogether may cause more problems than enabling a relatively
small, fixed-size pagefile. When working multiple pix and/or multiple layers in
Photoshop, I often run over my 1 GB. Try setting it up with 128MB or so, with
the initial and max size the same; that will prevent the OS from expanding the
pagefile.
 
Yes ... and when Peak eclipses Limit, you get a lovely error saying it's
run out of virtual memory and is trying to expand the pagefile, followed
by lots of disk activity and often a BSoD as it all gets ugly ;)
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Shouldn't that read 'uglier'?! *8)
 
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