i disabled the virtually memory and my system just flies now. Here is a perfect example.
I have an external hard drive connected using firewire. WITH virtual memory enabled i made an ISO file on the external drive, the fastest it got was about 10MB/s and it was variable from 2 to 5 1 .. etc ... then i disabled virtual memory because i wanted to defrag the drive fresh and then reinstate the virtual memory. But i thought, lets try it with out virtual memory.
I made an ISO file for Maya to the external drive and it was going at 20MB/s constant speed. I thought wow this is pretty damn fast. I kept it off and it just runs just as good without virtual memory and better.
of course i have 512MB of ram. I wouldn't recommend that for anyone with less ram then that. I can only imagine down the road if i have too many things open i'll hit the "out of memory" error.
i just thought it was interesting and i wanted to share it.
i'll try and get benchmarks if you care? ... and to make it cpu related, i didn't know what it was but now i just realized this could go under hard drives, but i'm too lazy to to redo all this again.
umm, my pentium 4 2ghz rocks and amd is evil and bad boooo bad ... j/k - mocking the fanboys.
Life is irrelivent and irrational.
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I have an external hard drive connected using firewire. WITH virtual memory enabled i made an ISO file on the external drive, the fastest it got was about 10MB/s and it was variable from 2 to 5 1 .. etc ... then i disabled virtual memory because i wanted to defrag the drive fresh and then reinstate the virtual memory. But i thought, lets try it with out virtual memory.
I made an ISO file for Maya to the external drive and it was going at 20MB/s constant speed. I thought wow this is pretty damn fast. I kept it off and it just runs just as good without virtual memory and better.
of course i have 512MB of ram. I wouldn't recommend that for anyone with less ram then that. I can only imagine down the road if i have too many things open i'll hit the "out of memory" error.
i just thought it was interesting and i wanted to share it.
i'll try and get benchmarks if you care? ... and to make it cpu related, i didn't know what it was but now i just realized this could go under hard drives, but i'm too lazy to to redo all this again.
umm, my pentium 4 2ghz rocks and amd is evil and bad boooo bad ... j/k - mocking the fanboys.
Life is irrelivent and irrational.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>