Can you help me!

[kenPRowan]

Hello gang,

A few questions here;

1) Is there a limit on the amount of virtual mem a system can have. If so, wat limits this?

2) Windows is a 64-bit operating system. Why hasn't there been a 128-bit operating system been released.

Thank you all for your advise


Ken

[Midknyte]

the limit of your virtual memory is determined by the size of your hard drive, if you let windows manage it. for best performance, it is recommended that you limit the swap file to 1.5-2x the amount of physical ram you have in the system. you can set it to less than that if you have a lot of ram.

winxp, win2k and nt are 32bit. there is a 64bit version of winxp. win9x is a psuedo-32bit OS, but it's really 16bit under the hood.

[AllGamer]

windows is still 32 bit mainly
the 64 bit version will come out when the 64 bit CPUs comes out

by Virtual memory are you referring to the Swap and Page file?

or the VCache?

or the actual RAM ?

[kenPRowan]

Ok!

One of the guys on my course which i have just started, decided to allocated his second HD as virtual mem, (the complete thing), i am sure that this is a complete waste of space. But i just wanted somebody with more experience to confirm this.

Thank you for your help

[Midknyte]

putting the swap file on the second drive is good, but he shouldn't allocate the whole thing to the swap file.

[AllGamer]

kenPRowan, You are 100% Right

Unless say that HDD is only 20 Meg
or even a 200 meg

but say if his HDD was 3 Gig
and he used it all, then he's out of his skull

How much RAM does he have?
if you have over 500 meg of ram
then he doesn't need more than 200 meg for PageFile

the larger it is the slower his computer goes

[kenPRowan]

Cheers AllGamer,

Slowly all this is starting to make sense to me.

Thank you all for your help