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codeman43   08-25-2004 at 06:12:48 PM

I have about 768MB of RAM in my system. A friend asked me to test a program out for him to see just how fast it would actually run. Unfortunately, he has only 128 meg of RAM and as a result I already know that the program will run faster in my computer. I understand that there is a way to configure the RAM usage without having to change the RAM chip.

I'm not sure the way to go about doing this although I thought it may be through the win.ini. Is there anyone that is familiar with this technique?

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bum_jcrules   08-25-2004 at 08:05:16 PM
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You're asking about the paging file usage correct? If so, for which OS do you need to know? (98, NT, 2000, XP, Server?)




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jammydodger   08-25-2004 at 08:12:46 PM
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You cant configure that ammout of RAM windows uses, only the size of the pagefile (or virtual memory) this is a part of your hard disk that windows uses when it runs out of RAM(or when the files in memory wont be needed for a while).

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codeman43   08-25-2004 at 09:29:58 PM
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Thank you for the reply. :-)

I understand about the pagefile, but I know this can be done. It may be thu one of the *.ini files like win.ini or config.sys. I was just hoping that someone know's the file to use and the command.

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Prof133   08-26-2004 at 03:37:25 PM
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Testing to see how your 768MB system would run if it had 128MB of memory? Referring to <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833721" target="_new">/maxmem</A> switch?

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Anonymous   08-26-2004 at 09:11:22 PM
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uh cool didnt know this switch

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codeman43   08-26-2004 at 10:10:58 PM
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Thank you Prof133, this was what I was looking for.... Thank you.

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