memory cache

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How do I increase the memory cache size and the disc cache size.

thanks

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

Hi,

Why? What are you trying to accomplish?

Memory cache is limited by the amount of installed ram and the amount in
active use. The balance of the physical ram available can be used for
caching. Additional caching is achieved via the Virtual Memory by writing
memory pages that are stored on the hard drive. Retrieving these pages is
considerably slower than retrieving from physical ram, so adding ram to a
system that frequently pages is a cure for slow performance. The worst
possible thing that you can do is install a memory manager program, as these
work on the basis of stripping the ram of the cached files requiring that
needed information be retrieved from the hard drive and rewritten to the
memory when needed.

Disk cache is limited to the amount of hard drive space available, and the
file system in use. A FAT32 file system cannot create a file larger than
4GB, so if you are using large multimedia files you should be using NTFS
(which does not share this limitation). If you are running out of disk
space, you should consider removing junk, uninstalling unneeded programs,
and running disk cleanup to get rid of unneeded temp files.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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> thanks
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