@composer22 said:
I remember a bunch of audio tweaks that suggested raising it to 2 - 2.5 times your physical memory
i can't agree on this at all ... i'm considering this to be a workaround for heavily underpowered homecomputers ... actually under NT4 i've limited virtual memory to 2MB *) (this was the minimum allowed) to speed up applications. machines beyond 1 or 2 GB should be treated individually, especially since i can't see something even trying to fill 16 GB virtual memory on an 8 GB machine ...
the other point: windows (2000, XP, 32bit) takes 50% of available memory equally for kernel space and user space - kernel space on machines with more than 2 GB RAM could be limited to use only 1 GB (not the other way around) - changing the (more or less) well-known registry key values had always to be done very carefully to not limit other ressources and often had different effects on different computers.
basically VI / VE is intended to run best with the default registry settings, but this doesn't mean you need to keep designs, uPnP, DHCP, ect running and virtual memory at a useless value.
rules for VISTA are slightly different since there is a sheer plethora of services running and a few things have been already optimized by default ... unfortunately not the virtual memory (or can someone tell me what to do with a 32 GB pagefile on a 32 GB machine?)
christian
*) i should have added that the NT4 workstation i'm referring to here already had 1 GB RAM ...