Memory low

[HavocXphere]

I moved my swapfile to one of my sata drives so my ssd was not hurt. No problems.

hmm...I suppose its a matter of compromise. I've got ~4TB on the HDDs and 128gb on the SSD. I figured the SSD can take a couple of years of writes...while the 2 HDDs spinning up constantly might endanger the data.

Yet I can also see the other side...SSDs are expensive as hell so minimizing writes makes sense.

Thoughts?

Marc Russinovich has an in depth article about this. Remember reading this when I played with page file. http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

hmmm...that article looks like it might hold the answer. Will have a look at that when I'm in a state more appropriate for semi-heavy tech reading. Thanks

 

[w1z4rd]

hmm...I suppose its a matter of compromise. I've got ~4TB on the HDDs and 128gb on the SSD. I figured the SSD can take a couple of years of writes...while the 2 HDDs spinning up constantly might endanger the data.

Yet I can also see the other side...SSDs are expensive as hell so minimizing writes makes sense.

Thoughts?

Well my setup is:

SSD drive
1x 500GB SATA
1x 2 TB SATA

The only things I have installed on the SSD are the operating system and games I like the most, all apps are installed onto the 500gb, including the swap file. I use the 2TB for random data, but most of my data is in a cloud. Dont know if I am doing the right thing. I am not a PC performance expert. Im more a server person.

 

[HavocXphere]

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Sounds about right. I tend to split files, esp for games via symlinks (or whatever its called). I figure load all the small files onto the SSD & all big files onto the HDD...small ones are what kills the performance because its not sequential. Also allow for some targeted customizing.

e.g. for CoD4 I play only MP, so I've got the MP maps loaded onto the SSD and the SP maps loaded onto hdd. Works...well. I'm usually the first one joining the game.

Link shell extension by Hermann Schinagl...some random German dude who integrated the whole hardlink thing into explorer right click. You can do the same via command line but...ugh tedious.

 

[bekdik]

Have a look at http://howto.excitebuzz.com/make-google-chrome-use-less-memory/120

 

[killadoob]

My error message isn't limited to just firefox or a browser, i have tested it. I have left windows and only windows running with nothing running for 24 hours, i open corel and it tells me corel must be closed.

That is why i think it is windows issue, not an application issue. When i check the logs memory is on 1.9 gb and cpu is idle yet my 8gb memory can't handle corel having run nothing for 24 hours but windows . Reboot and it's fine.

I would rather reboot everyday over reloading my work pc.