John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Jan 12 11:00:43 CST 2005
I use XP exclusively at this point. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:25 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] wXP virtual memory question Do you use xp or 2k? It's not been good for us on 2k, so we've disabled it across the whole domain. Jon -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: 12 January 2005 14:07 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] wXP virtual memory question Jon, I use hibernate mode on my laptop all the time, never crashes. I don't use it on my PCs though I've often wondered why it wasn't used more often. It is much quicker to dump a memory state and reload it later than to load that memory state from all the various files needed. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:43 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] wXP virtual memory question Arthur 1: right click on the "My computer" icon on the desktop and go to properties. Then select the advanced tab. On there is a button marked performance, click on that. This should now bring up a page with a white box at the top listing your drives, and some numbers next to them, telling you how much space is used on each drive for the virtual memory. Select the drive you want it to be on, and in the two boxes below type the SAME number (I usually use 2048). This means that your performance won't increase or decrease due to page file resizing. Then select the old drive, and delete the numbers. 2: When I did part of my MCSE course they said that it was a myth - surely someone with 64mb of ram would need a bigger page file than someone with 1gb - I tend touse 1gb or 2gb for my pagefile on pc's I set up, depending on the size of the hard drive. 3: That's the space reserved for saving the data on your pc when it goes into hibernate mode... this mode is a PITA, as it mostly tends to crash the pc or laptop. In power management, you can deactivate hibernate mode and you'll get all that room back. Jon -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com] Sent: 12 January 2005 13:31 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] wXP virtual memory question Actually, three related questions: 1. The interface is quite quite confusing (or alternatively, my senior moments are becoming more frequent). I want to move the Windows pagefile.sys from drive e: to drive f:. It's not readily apparent how to do this. 2. I have heard or read that the pagefile.sys setting should be twice the RAM available. Is this just old-folks' tales or is there sense behind this alleged maxim? 3. I just noticed another file 260MB large called hiberfil.sys. What is this? Can I kill it? Can I move it? TIA, Arthur > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.10 - Release Date: 1/10/2005 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. 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