Timeline for How do I find what's eating up all of my system's memory? (not SuperFetch)
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| Jun 20, 2012 at 17:48 | comment | added | Coldblackice | So is it proven that it's overall better to increase or decrease the page file, in terms of raw, overall performance? Is the 1.5x really necessary? | |
| Jun 17, 2012 at 18:46 | comment | added | tiki | To increase your virtual memory follow the path : Go to MY COMPUTER properties->select "Advance system settings"->go to 'advance' tab->select the "settings" under PERFORMANCE->go to advance tab->under Virtual Memory Select Change-> Select Custom size to give min. and max. size......It is recommended to increase your Virtual memory upto 1.5x of your physical memory(ex:if you have 4GB RAM then you can assign upto 6GB virtual memory). But FRANs suggestion is also correct. Please try to minimize your unnecessary background application. | |
| Jun 17, 2012 at 16:15 | comment | added | Fran | While increasing virtual memory (by increasing the size of the pagefile) is valuable, it may only lead to a lot of paging, which will slow the machine waaaay down. If all unnecessary programs have been prevented from running, then the best thing to do is install more RAM. | |
| Jun 17, 2012 at 14:46 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg | How do you increase your virtual memory? And what's the reasoning behind the factor 1.5? | |
| Jun 17, 2012 at 13:15 | history | answered | tiki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |