[X4U] Re: VPC and Win2K

[Robert Ameeti]

>On 4/17/05 5:50 PM, "Robert Ameeti" <Robert at Ameeti.net> wrote:
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>>>  Also, according to some posts in microsoft's news groups allocating
>>>  too much memory can also slow it down.  They said 256MB is best, and
>>>  anything over 384MB will lead to slowness.
>>
>>  I keep trying to track down any validity of those kinds of
>>  recommendations and never find anything meaningful. I do think they
>>  might be more tale than truth. It is all about free memory. If you
>>  have free memory, then you are fine to allocate it. If you don't,
>>  things resort to virtual memory which is not good.
>
>According to the "authority," the more memory allocated the more overhead
>involved to manage it, hence the slowdown.  I added 2GB memory to my 2x2GHz
>G5 over the weekend (3.5GB total) and VPC 7/WinXP Pro still ran slow. That's
>when I decided to see of there was anything on MS's news groups.  After
>dropping the allocation from 512MB to 256MB it _appeared_ to be faster,
>though that could be wishful thinking on my part.

And I'd like to see some true timing of actual use. If you should 
happen to do this, please post the results. I haven't seen it slower.
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Robert Ameeti

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