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Title: page file
Post by: TBolt A-10 on July 30, 2004, 02:25:26 AM

Skuzzy,
does AH use the paging file at all?  

if so, i would imagine that we could see an improvement in performance by increasing its size.  i just increased the limit by 3 times the amount of RAM.
(3*256 MB=768 MB paging file)

((wonder if it'll help eliminate the screen freezes))

Title: page file
Post by: Skuzzy on July 30, 2004, 07:03:54 AM

That is under the control of Windows.  Windows will use it when it needs to swap out/in memory.

A screen freeze related to paging could occur when you are low on available system ram and Windows is attemtping to fire off some program in the background while you are in Aces High II.

Title: page file
Post by: TBolt A-10 on July 30, 2004, 09:15:45 AM

Okay...thanks, Skuzzy.

Title: Skuzzy
Post by: bustr on July 30, 2004, 03:16:03 PM

If Skuzzy sees this,, a question for win2k and XP related to this thread.

Instead of the pagfile which in most cases should be set same starting size as ending size, what about either /3GB in the boot.ini to increase user mode memory pages to 3Gbytes or even possibly - Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\ Control\ Session Manager\Memory Management

Add the REG_DWORD - PoolUsageMaximum

Set it between 10-50 decimal.

My thought is by default the memory manager is set to audit and reclaim memory threads at 60-80% of the total pool issued. Setting it to a smaller number will cause it to reclaim sooner, and reduce some amount of leakage.

I have to tune SQL servers where I work for issues like this. Just a thought.

My PC at home has enough hardware resources that I don't have to memory tune for the game. I probebly should borrow a underpowered box and test. Figured Skuzzy would have tried this already for early beta testing.

Title: page file
Post by: Skuzzy on July 30, 2004, 03:57:22 PM

While I am familiar with configuring the memory management systems in Windows, it is something I never felt comfortable with talking to users about.

It is easy to render a system in very bad state, without knowing exactly how the system is configured.

Title: page file
Post by: bustr on July 30, 2004, 04:11:38 PM

Skuzzy, you are right.

I have an underpowered box with XP on it. But even if I tweak the memory management on that specific box, and it performs, it is a box by box scenario. I'll shoot you an e-mail instead if anything good comes of it.

Thanks for your quick answer. I wish most companies would look at HTC for a model of great customer service.:aok

Title: page file
Post by: SLO on July 30, 2004, 06:59:14 PM

using RegEdit is NOT a good thing to tell people that just ain't computer savvy

Title: page file
Post by: bustr on July 30, 2004, 07:50:59 PM

Sorry SLO I support Win OS's  for a living and don't even think about it. You are right, should have considered my audience.:)

Title: page file
Post by: TBolt A-10 on July 30, 2004, 11:41:34 PM

Well, I would love to follow the discussion.  I'm taking an A+ certification class, and this subject would be great practice!  :)