HD swapping issue

31st July 2002, 21:43

Well I was looking at my dad's PIII 733 MHz, 256mb sdram, because it's so slow, it doesn't perform like it should in my humble opinion.

When loading windows 2000, opening excel or whatever, the HD swaps like hell ... with 128 or more megs of free ram.
I set the page at min=max size = 384mb ram, 1.5 times the system ram like it outta be right?

Still it swaps like hell with everything you do....
For general office mail and surfing on the net this pc's specs surely outta be enough in my humble opinion.

Anyone got a clue what I might be overlooking here?
With sisoft the cpu and mem perform on par with a 750MHz and with SDRAM bandwith ... and 256 mb should be enough for only excel word mail etc ... I had a laptop 600mhz with 256mb ram it ran so much faster ...

perhaps the HD is only a 5400rpm'er?, but still that can't explain the swapping like hell ....
install XP perhaps and see what that gives?

jmke · 31st July 2002, 22:15

hmm, try defragging
2nd small HD on another IDE channel where Swap will be placed

Bosw8er · 31st July 2002, 22:25

Or you can install a program that improves your cache, i installed Cacheman on my server

http://www.outertech.com/

31st July 2002, 21:43	#1
Pirre Posts: n/a	HD swapping issue Well I was looking at my dad's PIII 733 MHz, 256mb sdram, because it's so slow, it doesn't perform like it should in my humble opinion. When loading windows 2000, opening excel or whatever, the HD swaps like hell ... with 128 or more megs of free ram. I set the page at min=max size = 384mb ram, 1.5 times the system ram like it outta be right? Still it swaps like hell with everything you do.... For general office mail and surfing on the net this pc's specs surely outta be enough in my humble opinion. Anyone got a clue what I might be overlooking here? With sisoft the cpu and mem perform on par with a 750MHz and with SDRAM bandwith ... and 256 mb should be enough for only excel word mail etc ... I had a laptop 600mhz with 256mb ram it ran so much faster ... perhaps the HD is only a 5400rpm'er?, but still that can't explain the swapping like hell .... install XP perhaps and see what that gives?

31st July 2002, 22:15	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	hmm, try defragging 2nd small HD on another IDE channel where Swap will be placed __________________

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31st July 2002, 22:25	#3
Bosw8er Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,711	Or you can install a program that improves your cache, i installed Cacheman on my server http://www.outertech.com/