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How To Improve Paging File Performance
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2007-06-07
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Virtual memory is created using a special file called a swapfile or paging file. Here the operating system will write the least recently used data in the memory to free memory for other programs. In case you think you can improve your system's performance by having a large page file, think again.
The speed of the memory is much, much higher than the speed of a hard disk, so as long as you use the paging file, there will always be performance degradation. However if you have more than 256MB of RAM use this tweak to considerably improve your performance. The main idea is to use all the memory before using the paging file.
1. Go to Start -> Run.
2. Type msconfig and click OK.
3. Click on the System.ini tab.
4. Expand the 386enh tab.
5. Click on new then in the blank box type ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1.
6. Click OK, then restart your computer for the setting to take effect.
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This setting is for Windows 98 and ME only. It will have no effect in XP or any other NT platform OS. The system.ini file is maintained in these systems for compatibility with old 16 bit applications. Most settings will be ignored. Even in Windows 98 the setting did not work as described. It did not prevent using the swap file until physical memory was exhausted, it merely used it less.
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