RE: windows xp ram question

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Alpha Maj ravn

because you have to remember, a meg of ram is 1024k - not 1000. This leads to RAM chip manufacturers rounding up/down as necessary. So your 256 meg chip may well actually only be 255 meg.

What you did with the virtual memory was - basically you increased the amount of hard drive space it uses as RAM. Making it larger will (generally) help performance - to an extent. You've got to keep in mind that your hard drive is not nearly as fast as RAM and having a bigger pagefile/virtual memory allocation wont help as much as more real RAM would. However, your settings are probably just fine.

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Message:	On 2006-01-16 13:45:08, ravn wrote >because you have to remember, a meg of ram is 1024k - not 1000. This leads to RAM chip manufacturers rounding up/down as necessary. So your 256 meg chip may well actually only be 255 meg. > >What you did with the virtual memory was - basically you increased the amount of hard drive space it uses as RAM. Making it larger will (generally) help performance - to an extent. You've got to keep in mind that your hard drive is not nearly as fast as RAM and having a bigger pagefile/virtual memory allocation wont help as much as more real RAM would. However, your settings are probably just fine.
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