Optimal settings for virtual memory

Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/13/2003, 8:40 AM

Hi, folks.

I just dropped a second hard drive into my machine -- dedicated to video capture.

I've heard contradictory information on virtual memory settings, so if you tech-savvy folks out there can offer your sage advice, I'd be much obliged.

I know minimum and maximum should be set to the same size, but should the virtual memory be set to my C drive, my second (my video) drive or split between the two?

One tech site advised that putting it on the slave drive was more efficient -- another said that accessing it would interfer with intensive data transfers, like sending DV to tape. Another advised adding a THIRD hard drive, just to hold the virtual memory, but I'm not to that place in my life yet.

Thanks much in advance.

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/13/2003, 11:17 PM
Your virtual memory swap file should be a fixed size on a drive that you don’t capture on. For may people this is your C: drive. I would make it at least twice your real memory but no more that 2.5x your real memory. I have my operating system and swap file on my C: drive, my applications on my D: drive and my capture drive is F: The capture drive is physically a different drive while C: and D: are partitions on the same physical drive so I only have two physical hard drives. I have 512MB of memory so my swap file is fixed and 1024. I do hour-long captures of DV tape via firewire and don’t drop any frames.

~jr