Did I need to upgrade memory ?

HLK

Can someone tell me if a constant increase in 'page file usage' as shown on Task manager indicates a need for more memory ?

Queenie

Don't know ... wish I could upgrade my memory

Have you defrag'd lately?

T4i

Depends.....What are you doing while the page file is increasing?

How much RAM do you have at the mo? On what operating system?

What progs do u generally use?

HLK

T4i wrote:

Depends.....What are you doing while the page file is increasing?

How much RAM do you have at the mo? On what operating system?

What progs do u generally use?

Answer - not a lot - surfing net sing IE - google searches..
I do tend to have a lot of stuff open though as I'm a multi-tasking type of gal.

Running DELL 8300 P4 3.00GHz 512mb RAM, XP SP2
over 11g 102mbs wireless network (however this machine is actually hardwired now I think of it.)

Using wireless mouse & keyboard which add to the number of tasks in TM currently = 49.

I use all the usual on a regular basis ..
ad-adware
spybot
spywareblaster
microsoft antispyware
Norton Internet security
Hijackthis
Belaric advisor..
CCleaner

There doesn't seem to be anything else I can get rid of, everthing is Kosher.

The page file usage seem to have gone up a bit recently .. sits about 392 meg ? Just wondered if that was significant..

To answer previous, nope haven't done that..is that my problem do you think?

I seem just to hang up from time to time .... so if necessary I don't mid upping thememory but I like to know why

criminal_smile

I'd noticed a similar trend on my PC, and simply went in and manually increased the page file max size to 2Gb. If this increased page file usage isn't adversely affecting your system performance, then I wouldn't worry about it too much.

HLK

criminal_smile wrote:

I'd noticed a similar trend on my PC, and simply went in and manually increased the page file max size to 2Gb. If this increased page file usage isn't adversely affecting your system performance, then I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Yes, sorry.. I've already upped my to 2Gb. Currently showing - allocated 768mb.

wolfman

You shouldn't need a page file any larger than 512mb, 2gb is very drastic. For performance it's best to set the minimum and maximum size of the page file to the same value.

I currently run 1gb of Ram, with no page file, and never use more than 500mb, I average about 350mb (and I'm running IIS, Visual Studio.Net, Sql Server, Pest Patrol, Nod32, Trillian, Winamp, Firefox, Thunderbird, PeerGuardian, Kerio PF to name a few), so you should be fine with 512mb ram, and 512mb page file. Even when I run Photoshop it never really goes above 700mb.

T4i

wolfman wrote:

You shouldn't need a page file any larger than 512mb, 2gb is very drastic. For performance it's best to set the minimum and maximum size of the page file to the same value.

I agree and so the same for my home setup. My pagefile at the mo is 205MB with 2 firefox pages open and newsleecher running. I dont really see my pagefile go above 400MB unless i'm in a game.

512MB is fine for your system, most people run 512mb and find that this is more than enough for office, browsing, email etc.

I'd set your pagefile to a static size. Defrag your hdd and see how it goes.

HLK

Cheers everyone.. you're better than an 0870 number anyday!..

Done my defrag & heeded the .5gig advice.

I'lll see how I get on. :T