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[zrotech]

Hi again,
I have a question for those that have actually attempted this and have gotten some benchmarks out of it.
If you have 8GB RAM DDR2 (in a Vista x64 machine), is it better to turn off Paging and force things to go into ram? Or if not, what is a good page file size to use to achieve the best performance?

I am leaning towards the idea that turning Page file off would yield the best performance, but i still have not do any benchmarking.

Thank You.

PS. My HDD is a SATA at 7200RPM.

[tehboris]

In Vista Windows finally adopted to model of memory management that every other OS has had (by default) for ages. That is to say, it only uses virtual memory if it's needs to. Where as all previous versions of Windows have kept a copy of memory in virtual memory.

[zrotech]

Then, is this correct (From the Task Manager)? Knowing that I have 8GB RAM:
Memory (Bars below CPU Usage): 1.95GB (7-12 things running)

Kernel Memory (MB)
Total: 362
Paged: 296
Nonpaged: 66
81% is paged? Is it that 81% is not being used almost ever?

System
Handles: 25508
Threads: 809
Processes: 62
Page File: 2115M / 12505M (Why so big, 2.1GB fit in RAM, i think...)

And the most weird one to me is this, since I am not sure what it means.
Physical Memory (MB)
Total: 6142
Cached: 4632
Free 58