Can anyone advise me what the appropriate minimum and maximum virtual settings should be
for a 64 bit Computer with following specs.
Intel i7
12GB Ram, Two 250 GB HDD's
Windows XP Professional version 5.2 Service Pack 2
Software installed Stata Version 10 data sets exceeding 7GB
Following Info required please
Minimum and maximum virtual memory
Which box to tick Custom size / System managed size / No paging file
for both C:\ and D:\
Look forward to your advice
Ian
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by: FatMancPosted on 2009-05-05 at 05:07:21ID: 24303719
Hi,
You have two options:
1. You can click on the System Managed Size option and let Windows managed the pagefile for you. This is the option most users would choose as you can just click and forget it.
2. If you want to manage the size yourself then click on Custom Size and make sure the maximum size is 3 times the amount of ram you have. In your case 36Gb.
I would select only one of the drives to store the paging file either C: or D:
Use whichever drive doesn't have the OS installed (so normally would be D:)
Using both will degrade performance.
Hope this helps
John