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  1. Posts : 1,557
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       #11

    MacGyvr said:
    Ummm, the OP was not talking about a Virtual Machine....he was talking about Virtual Memory.
    Ummm maybe you need to take Antman off ignore....because he already pointed that out
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  2. Posts : 83
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       #12

    H2SO4 said:
    Archangel83 said:
    ok first thank you all for your responses. now about drive speed how do i figure out what one of my 2 drives is the faster is their a tool in windows or is their a freeware program that could tell me that info? as for default settings win7 had the virtual memory on the system disk i only changed it to my slave disk as i once was told that having the vm on a different drive other then the os disk would increase performance this being said should i switch it back to the os disk or leave it on my slave ?
    What Antman said. Jimbo's advice pertained to a different definition of "VM", not the pagefile settings you're discussing.

    If you're looking to make the best possible use of that second drive for pagefile purposes, don't just move the entire pagefile. Instead, split it up across both drives - say 2GB on the first drive, 2GB on the second, and so on for any new drives (spindles) you add to the system in the future.
    So i should not just have the virtual memory/page file on just one disk but split it between all the disks in my machine? sorry if i made confusion about running a virtual machine I'm a noob/novice and get my definitions mixed up in the future i will remember the different acronyms :)
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  3. Posts : 1,377
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       #13

    Archangel83 said:
    So i should not just have the virtual memory/page file on just one disk but split it between all the disks in my machine?
    Yes. When multiple spindles are available, there are performance benefits to splitting up the pagefile across most or all of them. The OS has the ability to pick the instantaneously fastest (least busy) drive at a given point in time.

    However, it won't make any huge difference for a home machine with a decent amount of memory. In fact, I'd be surprised if you actually noticed any effect.

    Archangel83 said:
    sorry if i made confusion about running a virtual machine I'm a noob/novice and get my definitions mixed up in the future i will remember the different acronyms :)
    No need to be sorry. It was a simple misunderstanding :)
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       #14

    h2so4 said:
    archangel83 said:
    sorry if i made confusion about running a virtual machine i'm a noob/novice and get my definitions mixed up in the future i will remember the different acronyms
    no need to be sorry. It was a simple misunderstanding
    iirc, irdm - af aik. Wamm. Ymmv.

    Ftw.
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  5. Posts : 1,377
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       #15

    Antman said:
    iirc, afaik, irdm. Wamm. Ymmv.

    Ftw.
    OTOH, not all TLAs have equal SNAFU powers. E-TLAs tend to be more unique, while S-TLA usage more frequently results in FSCK-ups.
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  6. Posts : 4,573
       #16

    Who started this? Speak English.
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       #17

    HAHAHA! very funny
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  8. whs
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       #18

    H2SO4 said:
    Antman said:
    iirc, afaik, irdm. Wamm. Ymmv.

    Ftw.
    OTOH, not all TLAs have equal SNAFU powers. E-TLAs tend to be more unique, while S-TLA usage more frequently results in FSCK-ups.

    Hey guys, please have merci with us poor foreigners that so not understand your morse code - LOL.
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  9. Posts : 1,377
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       #19

    whs said:
    H2SO4 said:
    Antman said:
    iirc, afaik, irdm. Wamm. Ymmv.

    Ftw.
    OTOH, not all TLAs have equal SNAFU powers. E-TLAs tend to be more unique, while S-TLA usage more frequently results in FSCK-ups.

    Hey guys, please have merci with us poor foreigners that so not understand your morse code - LOL.
    "Inlining" Antman's post:

    The Image and Identity Reseach Collective, as far as he knows, leads to Insulin Resistant Diabetes Mellitus. Thankfully, Women are Against Military Madness. Your Massive Mastodon ate my Velociraptor.

    Quite.
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  10. whs
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       #20

    H2SO4 said:
    whs said:
    H2SO4 said:

    OTOH, not all TLAs have equal SNAFU powers. E-TLAs tend to be more unique, while S-TLA usage more frequently results in FSCK-ups.

    Hey guys, please have merci with us poor foreigners that so not understand your morse code - LOL.
    "Inlining" Antman's post:

    The Image and Identity Reseach Collective, as far as he knows, leads to Insulin Resistant Diabetes Mellitus. Thankfully, Women are Against Military Madness. Your Massive Mastodon ate my Velociraptor.

    Quite.

    Thanks for the translation - very funny.
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