【 Weak current College 】 correctly set virtual memory systems smoother

1. the role of virtual memory

Memory in the computer's role is very large, computers all running programs need memory to execute, if you execute a procedure is large or multiple causes memory depletes. To solve this problem, Windows uses a virtual memory technology that took out some hard disk space to serve as the memory usage, memory consumption, the computer will automatically call the hard drives to act as a memory, to relieve the tension of memory. For example, if your PC only 128MB physical memory, when reading a 200MB file, you must use a larger virtual memory, file is memory read after the first store to virtual memory, wait for memory to store all files to the virtual memory, follow the virtual storage file inside the release to the original installation directory. Here, let's take a look at how to set the virtual memory.

2. virtual memory settings

For virtual memory set two points, namely the main memory size and page breaks, the memory size is to set the virtual memory minimum maximum for the number and the number and pagination location is set the virtual memory should use the partition of hard disk space. The settings for the memory size, how to obtain the minimum and maximum values you can use the following method: select "Start → Programs → Accessories → System Tools → System Monitor" (if there is no system tools, you can use the "Add/Remove Programs" of Windows Installer to install) to open the system monitor, and then select "Edit → Add projects", "type" and select "memory manager" in the right-hand list to select the "swap file size." This along with your action, shows the volatility of the value of the swap file, you can often use the program to open, and then use them, then take a look at the system monitor performance value, because each time the user when using the computer is different, therefore, it is best to adopt a longer time to monitor the swap file to identify the most suitable for your swap file, so you canensure stable system performance and the maintenance of the status of the best.

Identify the most appropriate scope value, set the virtual memory, use the right mouse button click on "my computer", select "Properties", eject the System Properties window, select "Properties" tab, click the "virtual memory" button to eject the virtual memory settings window, click "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings" radio button for "hard disk" selected large remaining space of the zone, and then in the "minimum" and "maximum value" text box, enter the appropriate values for the scope. If you feel you can use System Monitor to obtain the maximum and minimum values for some trouble, here you can select "allow full Windows manage virtual memory settings".

3. adjust paging location

Windows9x location of the virtual memory paging is saved in the root directory of drive c in a virtual memory files (also known as the swap file) Win386.swp, its location can be any one partition, if the system disk C capacity is limited, we can transfer to a different partition Win386.swp, method is to open the System.ini file in Notepad (C:Windows) file in the [386Enh] section, set "PagingDrive = C:WindowsWin386.swp" was changed to the path of other partitions, such as the swap file on D:, then changed to "PagingDrive = D:Win386.swp", in the absence of these statements can be typed directly.

As for using Windows2000 and WindowsXP, you can select "control panel → system → advanced → performance" in the "settings → advanced → change", open the virtual memory settings window, in the drive [volume label], the default selection is the partition system is on, if you want to change to a different partition, first of all to the original partition is set to no paging file, and then select a different partition.