How to properly set up WinXP virtual memory

I believe that many people know virtual memory, but when we set virtual memory, the system default is better, or the bigger the better. I am no longer worried about the knowledge of virtual memory here. Interested friends can go to Baidu. Let's take a look at how to set the xp virtual memory settings correctly.

Manually setting virtual memory

If you have not set it manually, virtual memory is managed by default, but the system default setting is usually conservative, which will cause the page to be automatically adjusted. The file is not continuous, and the efficiency of reading and writing is reduced, and the work efficiency is not high. Therefore, the prompt of “Insufficient Memory” often appears. Let us set it up by ourselves.

1 Right click on the “Computer
” icon on the desktop, and select the “Properties” option in the context menu that appears to open the “System Properties” window. Click in the window & ldquo; Superior & rdquo; tab, Advanced Settings dialog box appears;

② Click & ldquo; performance & rdquo; area & ldquo; set & rdquo; button, In the pop-up window, select the “Advanced“ tab to open its dialog.

3 In the dialog box, you can see the area about virtual memory. Click the “Change” button to enter the setting window of “Virtual Memory”. Select a partition with a larger free capacity, check the box in front of “Customize Size", fill in the specific values ​​in the "Initial Size", “Maximum" column, and then click &ldquo ; set → OK & rdquo; button, and finally restart the computer to make the virtual memory settings take effect. The above is the setting method of virtual memory in Windows
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Virtual memory size customization

1.General setting method

According to the general setting method, the minimum and maximum values ​​of the virtual memory swap file can be set to 1.5 times the memory capacity at the same time, but if the memory itself has a large capacity, such as 512MB of memory, we can set the basic of virtual memory. Value: The memory capacity is less than 256MB, it is set to 1.5 times; above 512MB, it is set to half of the memory capacity;

2. Precision setting method

Because each person actually operates the application It's impossible. For example, some people want to run large programs such as 3DMAX and Photoshop
, and some people may just browse the web and chat, so the requirements for virtual memory are not the same, so we have to adapt to local conditions. Precisely set the value of the virtual memory space.

1First set the virtual memory custom "initial size", "maximum" to two identical values, such as 500MB;

2 and then open “ Control Panel & Rarr; Management Tools & Rarr; Performance & rdquo;, in the "Performance" dialog box that appears, expand the "Performance Logs and Alerts" in the left column, select the "Counter Log" under it. Right-click in the blank space in the right column and select “New Log Settings” in the right-click menu.

3 Fill in any name in the pop-up dialog box “Name”. “Virtual Memory Test”. Click the “Add Counter” button in the window to go to the next window;

4In the window, open the drop-down list of “Performance Objects” and select “Paging File”. “ Select Counters from the list, and select “%Usage Peak”; in the lower section, select “ select the sample from the list, select “_Total” in the lower section, and then click & ldquo; Add & rarr; closed & rdquo; end

⑤ to be able to easily view the log file, open the & ldquo; log files & rdquo; tab, & ldquo; log file type & rdquo; options for & ldquo; text File & rdquo;, finally click the "OK" button to return to the "performance" rdquo; main interface;

6 in the right column can be found a "virtual memory test" project, If the item is red the note also does not start, click the item, select the context menu of & ldquo; start & rdquo; option to

then run some of their common applications, After a period of time, enter the default directory under the system partition where the log file is located, “PerfLogs”, find the virtual memory test _000001.csv” and open it with the Notepad program. In this content, we check the countdown in each column. The second value, which is the usage ratio of the virtual memory, find the maximum value of this value, such as “46” in the figure, multiply 46% by 500MB (the virtual memory value set in the previous) The value is 230MB.

with the value set to the initial size may be 230MB, and the maximum value can be freely set according to the size of disk space, it is generally recommended to set a minimum value of 2 to 3 times. In this way, we can make the xp virtual memory settings more precise, so that our love machine runs more smoothly and more efficiently.