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For those of you that love the biggest and fastest computers out there here is a little trick i have learned and will be using/trying soon.
Virtual memory is like ram that you computer uses but on your hard drive.
Now imagine that your computer wishes to read off the HD and read off of the VM, it cant do both at once.
So this can slow your computer performance quite a bit. This is what i advise to you. Get another HD small like 2gb and set your VM to use that drive and give it a value that is about 150% of your ram(max and min)
It is important that you have your main HD on the primary IDE and the VM on the secondary IDE. Both HDs should be on the master side of each IDE.
This information came to me from another forum, so I dont take the credit.
I havn't tried this yet, but ill; post back when I do.
Virtual memory is like ram that you computer uses but on your hard drive.
Now imagine that your computer wishes to read off the HD and read off of the VM, it cant do both at once.
So this can slow your computer performance quite a bit. This is what i advise to you. Get another HD small like 2gb and set your VM to use that drive and give it a value that is about 150% of your ram(max and min)
It is important that you have your main HD on the primary IDE and the VM on the secondary IDE. Both HDs should be on the master side of each IDE.
This information came to me from another forum, so I dont take the credit.
I havn't tried this yet, but ill; post back when I do.