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What is the perfect way to assign virtual memory for NT systems.

I have encountered problems even after increasing the memory.

What is the best solution?

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by avachon

Hi, I'm not sure there is a perfect way given machine specific configurations and various uses for a machine. However, the typical recommendation on an NT machine is to set the virtual memory to the size of ram plus 12mb. Better yet, though set the min. and max size to the same virtual memory size (either 1.5 or 2x the size of physical ram assuming you have the disk space for it. By setting the min and max the same, you'll decrease fragmentation of the paging file itself. You also can create multiple paging files on several physical disks (but not as part of a raid configuration or on the system or boot partitions). This will speed up reads from disk. Unless you need to create a dump file in the event of a crash, remove the paging file from the boot partition (system files)- this will increase performance. If you continue to have problems, you may want to run perf.monitor to get a fuller picture of your system and what it is doing. It would also be helpful to let us know what kind of problems you are experiencing and what kinds of programs, etc. you are running on the machine(s). Hope this helps though.

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