Posts by Bryan Sanchez86

Lawrence Miller4 said:I wasn't trying to be insulting.
Mmm, yeah—running VS .NET 2003, FTP, HTTP servers, plus some memory-hungry Adobe programs and the rest of the stuff everyone uses (like Winamp, VLC Media Player, etc.)... plus my machine is crunching through 800 threads at once without HT... I'm pretty sure that's barely touching 30% of my resources.

And look, if you honestly think my rig is the top-of-the-line powerhouse currently on the market, then maybe time has just passed you by a bit.

The only Linux distros I haven't messed with are Knoppix and Corel. Right now, I'm running SuSET 8.2.

One more thing—it's not exactly hard to pick up a Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM these days. I figure someone who actually lives and breathes computers can afford a decent machine without breaking the bank. It seems to me you might be one of those people who either won't or can't afford a better setup, and honestly, I feel for you—but that doesn't give you the right to judge everyone else the way you just did. But hey, that's just my two cents.

Well, there he goes, feeling offended. 😁

Everything except the servers runs on a PII 333 MHz (overclocked to 416🙂 with 320MB RAM, all on a P2B board, which means ATA33). I even do video editing—you know, pulling clips off a camera and stuff. It doesn't exactly fly, but it gets the job done. Since this isn't my primary livelihood... it's fine.

Besides, I don't think there's any way to force Windows to max out the RAM before it starts hitting the page file. 😢
Unless you just disable the latter entirely.😁

A buddy of mine has several HDDs, each with its own OS installed, and he uses them for different tasks. But since you're running servers, that's probably not an option for you. Your other choice—since you make your living doing this—is to just buy another computer, man, since they aren't exactly expensive anymore. Run your servers on one and your multimedia on the other. Problem solved. I don't know if I'm misreading the situation here, but if you're running FTP and HTTP servers, people are connecting to them to upload or download things. In that case, the HDD is working hard, especially if you have multiple drives hooked up. It might not even be about the page file.
It’s pointless to guess like this. You really have to see it in person to know.

PS. Don't get all worked up; I didn't mean anything by it. Though, you have to admit, some people just love to nitpick. I work with someone like that all the time. 😁 😁

I guess he probably didn't mean to set the value to zero—he likely meant selecting the "don't Use virtual Memory" option.

The Page file (swap file) is one of those things about Windows that’s both a feature and a total headache. It just messes with your drive whenever it feels like it, regardless of how much RAM you actually have. It's pretty different from Linux, which doesn't really touch the swap unless you're running low on RAM.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe this is actually causing anyone real trouble. My old rig is running at 333MHz with an ATA33 interface and 320MB of RAM, so it's not even an issue for me. I mostly just hibernate the thing once a week anyway.
The CPU speed—and honestly, that ATA33—is a much bigger bottleneck for me.

The rest of it seems like nitpicking, if you ask me. Just looking for problems where there aren't any.

My favorite people are the ones who go out and buy the most powerful machine on the market, barely use 30% of its capacity, and then complain about how "slow" it feels or how much the hard drive is working.

No offense intended, but if someone is rocking a Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM and they're still annoyed that Windows is using a Page file, I’d strongly suggest they just switch to Linux.