Anybody else have your virtual mem set to 0 besides me?

[rubank]

XP won´t let me

I have a distinct problem with this. Everytime I try to set the swap to 0 and reboot, XP after a couple of minutes shows a pop-up (yes, I haven´t disabled those ) that says XP will rectifie the problem! So, the next time I boot there the swapfile is again. Same thing if I set the swapfile to 2 or 5 or whatever small size so I can run Photoshop, XP will change it back without option.

I take it you guys are sure the same doesn´t happen to you (pop-ups diabled?), so any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

rubank

PS. I have 512 mb ram. In 98SE you can enable "conservativeswapfileusage" in system.ini, whereby the swap is almost always at zero even if you let Windows run things.
Anything the like in XP?

[Alec]

Yes, there is, but I can´t remember right now.

[Oggy Doggy]

I have 512 of ram with page file set to 256 and it's working fine. I will set it to 0 in a minute. I also tested a machine with 256 of ram with no virutal mem and it would error that the system is running low on virtual mem.
This is all on 2000.

[Guyver]

Instead of setting to Zero (0), disable swap/paging altogether by setting the "No Paging File" option under performance options.

Have been running for about 3 weeks under XP with ABIT KR7A-RAID, and 1Gb of DDR2100 without any issues at all.

Q3, VEF, SWGE, PoR, EverQuest, etc.. All run without issue or hiccup.

Also downloaded TweakXP from www.tweak-xp.de and ran through a few of their items.

Seems like a worthy application, if for no other reason than to learn what reg hacks get set (ie export registry before and after tweaks and compare the 2 - I use UNIX's 'sdiff -s' to get a side-by-side comparison).

[Oggy Doggy]

OOPS!!

I meant to say "disable"

Thanks for the correction, I can see how incorrect wording can cause issues down the road.