Question on XP Professional 32 bit memory usage

[suryad]

So I got a question for you XP memory gurus. I tried running a search but I got too many hits and it wasnt of use to me. If someone could point me to a relevant topic that will answer my question I will appreciate it and then we wont have to make this thread go any longer than it needs to be.

My question is this...I am running this software that takes up 2.14 gb of page file usage as shown in the Task Mnager. However I have 2 gigs of RAM on my laptop and so one would expect that the operating system would load all that data into the RAM and not touch the hard disk at all. But as of right now I see my PF usage as 2.14 gb and my physical memory showing as 1129008 KB as available.

So no my question is this...since that means a gig of my RAM is available, why isnt XP making the most efficient use of my RAM? Any pointers? Any registry tweaks?

[eyeball]

there is a tweak that forces xp to use all your ram before the pagefile, sorry i cant remember it but i definatly know there is one.

whether it works well or not is another matter. lol

[suryad]

Thanks eyeball, are you by any chance talking about this tweak?

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/399/ Becasue I have that enabled already and honestly I dont see the difference.

[Edit]

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1015/ is also another tweak I found with regard to page sizes and so on. I have 2 gigs of RAM on my laptop. Anyone done this tweak so that Windows just forgets about using complex algorithms to figure out the best page file size and set it permanently so that it can use memory efficiently?

Thanks for all answers!

Edited September 23, 2006 by suryad