Okay, so I went on this interview early in my career and got reamed by the hiring manager. He was asking me ridiculous questions for a job that only paid 30K. years later I relaized that it was nothing personal he was probably jsut trying to hook up a friend. But that's besides the point. One of the things that I learned, in an effort to not make this fiasco a total lost was a great little tweak that once applied to the registry of a windows 2000 server, performance would/could increase by up to 40%! Anyone know what i'm talking about! Thanks in advance!
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Here is one that allows you to reserve more system cache for file caching, which is appropriate for servers, instead of the default, software applications, which is more appropriate for desktops.
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Session Manager\ Memory Management] Value Name: LargeSystemCache Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: "0" for Desktops; "1" for Servers
I always set my paging file size to initial size: 1024 and maximum size: 1024 (adjust according to your actual memory size)
I've bandaged many a server problems with this. But I got nothing for registry...unless you are looking for 2000's version of msconfig...which you could go through and delete all of the startup programs. But I don't remember where this was located...anyone else remember where this is?
Well...there is an easier way. I first found it out a few years ago...but have since then forgotten...it's in the registry. Anyone know where the startup stuff is at?
just google msconfig and windows 2000 and you can download it. There is a different one for the 9* as for the NT flavors.
First thing I do on a Win2k system is get this on it. STUPID of MS to take that tool away, glad they learned to put it back.
Too bad the M$ losers took away the option to maximise the window in XP. I just LOVE having to scroll this little window around instead of take advantage of my nice big monitor....
This setting is a buffer size that the OS uses to kill apps. By decreasing the buffer, you are telling the OS " I know what i'm doing..just kill it already." I have seen a remarkable difference in how how the systems responds to requests. I changed my WaitToKill from 20000 to 2000.
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