Memory Zipper Plus

RAM Performance Optimizer and Resource Monitor

Swap File

Windows (95/98/ME /NT/2000/XP) is a Modern operating system and supports Virtual Memory. In windows environment there are two types of memory :

1.    System Physical Memory - It is the current installed RAM on a system. On modern  systems it could range from 128 MB to 2 GB on Servers.

2.  Virtual Memory - Windows create a Swap file on disk. Windows when run out of RAM saves Physical memory contents to this swap file. This Swap file is known as Virtual Memory. Whatever amount of RAM you have windows will always use virtual memory.

Windows memory management system can use both Physical and Virtual Memory. As soon as you run out of RAM windows starts to swap the data from physical memory to disk to make room. Thus you could run much more applications than your physical memory. But this system is not fool proof and some times some of program resources are on disk and others in memory or scattered all over. This results in memory leaks, program crashes, blue screens and disk activity after each and every task.

To adjust your swap files first right click my computer on the desptop and select propoerties.

You will then see this box. It is simmilar.

On windows NT it is simmillar. Just Goto performance in NT.

In 2000/XP Goto Advance as shown in figure

Now goto Performance and set the swap file. Do set a fixed swap file of 256 MB both min and max.

In NT/2000/XP you can set swap file on many partitions. If you have more disk create a swap file 96 MB bot min and max on each disk. It will improve the performance.

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