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KRK
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      02-12-2010

hello

A few days ago I was asking whether or not it was worth adding more Ram to
my pc (I have 2Gb). I was advised to download & run a WinXP Pagefile Usage
Monitor by Bill James. I've done this and it says the following.....

Pagefile Physical Location C:\pagefile.sys
Current pagefile usage 110 Mb
Session Peak usage 110 Mb
Current pagefile size 2345 Mb

Is this good or bad, ?

Does it suggest I need more Ram ?

Thanks again

KK

PS I've run the file a few times and get very similar numbers each time

 
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      02-12-2010
No You have heaps of memory

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"KRK" <> wrote in message
news:ep1%...
> hello
>
> A few days ago I was asking whether or not it was worth adding more Ram to
> my pc (I have 2Gb). I was advised to download & run a WinXP Pagefile
> Usage
> Monitor by Bill James. I've done this and it says the following.....
>
> Pagefile Physical Location C:\pagefile.sys
> Current pagefile usage 110 Mb
> Session Peak usage 110 Mb
> Current pagefile size 2345 Mb
>
> Is this good or bad, ?
>
> Does it suggest I need more Ram ?
>
> Thanks again
>
> KK
>
> PS I've run the file a few times and get very similar numbers each time
>


 
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Ken Blake, MVP
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      02-12-2010

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:13:40 -0000, "KRK"
<> wrote:


> A few days ago I was asking whether or not it was worth adding more Ram to
> my pc (I have 2Gb). I was advised to download & run a WinXP Pagefile Usage
> Monitor by Bill James. I've done this and it says the following.....
>
> Pagefile Physical Location C:\pagefile.sys
> Current pagefile usage 110 Mb
> Session Peak usage 110 Mb
> Current pagefile size 2345 Mb
>
> Is this good or bad, ?



It's fine.


> Does it suggest I need more Ram ?



No. Your page file usage is tiny, and what it's telling you is that
you do *not* need any more RAM. If you got more RAM, you would see no
improvement in performance.


>
> Thanks again
>
> KK
>
> PS I've run the file a few times and get very similar numbers each time


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KRK
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      02-13-2010


Many Thanks for the help


KK

"KRK" <> wrote in message
news:ep1%...
> hello
>
> A few days ago I was asking whether or not it was worth adding more Ram to
> my pc (I have 2Gb). I was advised to download & run a WinXP Pagefile
> Usage
> Monitor by Bill James. I've done this and it says the following.....
>
> Pagefile Physical Location C:\pagefile.sys
> Current pagefile usage 110 Mb
> Session Peak usage 110 Mb
> Current pagefile size 2345 Mb
>
> Is this good or bad, ?
>
> Does it suggest I need more Ram ?
>
> Thanks again
>
> KK
>
> PS I've run the file a few times and get very similar numbers each time
>


 
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