Accelerate Your WinXP by Speeding Diskcache

microsoftne · 06-09-2003, 03:34 PM

Diskcache plays a very important role in WinXP. However, the default I/O pagefile setting of XP is conservative, which limits the performance. Some better values for different RAM are given below.

1. run "regedit";
2. goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\IoPageLockLimit];
3. modify the value in Hex depending on the size of your RAM:
RAM: modified value(Hex)
64M: 1000;
128M: 4000;
256M: 10000;
512M or more: 40000.
4. reboot.

Though some good tools (such as "Cacheman") can do this, it is an interesting experience for you to work it out by yourself and let your XP fly.

06-09-2003, 03:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
microsoftne Super Techie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 469	Accelerate Your WinXP by Speeding Diskcache Diskcache plays a very important role in WinXP. However, the default I/O pagefile setting of XP is conservative, which limits the performance. Some better values for different RAM are given below. 1. run "regedit"; 2. goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\IoPageLockLimit]; 3. modify the value in Hex depending on the size of your RAM: RAM: modified value(Hex) 64M: 1000; 128M: 4000; 256M: 10000; 512M or more: 40000. 4. reboot. Though some good tools (such as "Cacheman") can do this, it is an interesting experience for you to work it out by yourself and let your XP fly. __________________ Death has a thousand doors, let's see which one our victim chose. "There's one thing that you learn on this job, is that human beings are capable of anything" If you chase two rabbits, you lose them both You say tomato... I say cause of death For sale/trade http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f40/fu...r-fs-t-139695/

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