whats the best way to use virtual memory?

[godzmarine]

for applications or cache? theres 2 options.


or should i make a partition and use one for cache and the other one for applications? i got 200 gigs to spare.

[Dark_Mage_Zero]

Depends..If you could, I would split the hard drive in half, Then split what you split in half in half so that you could use both..Becuase they are both good...It's just a matter of what you want more really...

[MalikTous]

I routinely put the swap/page file (virtual memory) on a partition other than the boot partition. Usually it's not even on the same hard drive as the boot partition. I make sure the swap partition has at least 4 times the physical RAM in size and make the minimum swapfile size 2.5 times RAM. Then I avoid using that partition for much else.

On a 186GB (200GB market size) drive, if it is the only drive in my XP box, I would make a 16GB partition for the OS, a 165GB data partition, and a 4 to 5 GB swap partition (assuming 1 GB of RAM or less). All partitions would be NTFS. I would use programs like XTeq XSetup to push my Documents directory to the data partition and install most apps to a Program Files directory on the data partition. The swap partition would be exclusively for the virtual memory.

[godzmarine]

sweet thx heart lets see i have up to...the L: drive now

[Recognition]

auto mangement

[sagebond76]

I don't really understand the concept of partitions, could someone please explain it to me.

[Nuclear Muchacho]

sagebond76

I don't really understand the concept of partitions, could someone please explain it to me.

The space on a hd is split into segments called partitions. These partitions can be used in various ways (as logical drives for example, formatted with various file systems). Some people have only 1 partition, some have more. I have 5 (linux boot, linux home, xp, user, linux swap and xp swap). I don't think i explained it very well... sweatdrop

About swap files, it's good to make a system virtual memory swap file on a FAT16 partition on the very end of the disk (outer regions). FAT16 is good for large files and outer regions have a faster transfer rate.
I use my vm for apps, cache seems a better choice for servers.

[JadedMonkey]

to get the most speed out of virtual memory, don't put it on the same drive as Windows....partitinos dont matter, it's how fast the CPU can get data off the drive.