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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Verte
No way, especially with Vista. If you're using Vista on a 32 bit machine especially- with 4GB you can almost stop it thrashing and caching it's brains out 
Well, that said, I don't know what you will be using it for so there's a chance you will use less. Still, it's nice to have all your ram in physical ram rather than on your disk!
yes way...
If you're using a 32bit system, it is absolutely useless to add more than 3GB (well 3,5 something actually) performance wise. The added memory will not add anything in performance, speed, memory usage, etc. It will simply be wasted and not being used. Even if you have 2 processes using each 2GB of memory, Windows will still need to use a pagefile (even in Vista!).
There are hundreds of benchmarks to back this up too
And all this for normal PC usage (thus not talking about server editions of Windows, etc.
Then you can turn all pagefiles off
I know, it's still kind of overkill. I've just had too many experiences [mostly mathematical models and simulations, your mileage may vary elsewhere] with Windows paging with nearly a gig of free ram, sucking my performance down. Moving from a recent Windows machine to a six year old laptop running Unix cuts the simulation time by a factor of about five. I haven't had the time to check Windows with paging turned off, I only heard it could be done without deep magic in #Python the other day, but I imagine the speedup could be similar in programs that access a lot of ram at a time.
BTW Cookie, you sure these benchmarks are for 32 bit?
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
