re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 5:40 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bobstur
(2225 messages posted)
I set my swap at 200/400 but with my 256MB it never gets used anyway. You can set
the min and max to the same value if you want - it won't really matter unless you're
into giant graphics stuff.
I have read a lot of articles about vcache and I still find the subject rather
mysterious. Setting the min to a higher number will suck up more of your RAM from
the very start, but then again you have RAM to burn.
I suggest you use System Monitor (sysmon.exe) and track things like Memory Manager:
Unused Physical Memory, Memory Manager: Disk Cache Size and Memory Manager: Swapfile
in Use and see how your vcache settings affect these values. BTW, you vcache numbers
should be in multiples of 1024. Example: 1024x37=37888.
