Also considering you may be working with video capture/ or conversion, you will want to take into consideration the largest file size that you may encounter with your video editing/capture/conversion software. It is better to have the minimum and maximum ammount of pagefile set as the same number; so it is a fixed pagefile.. This helps prevent fragmentation of the drive, and also prevents windows from trying to dynamically change the pagefile size.
This is the recommendation that I made back on page one, the suggestion was to use a fixed virtual memory/pagefile size, to do this you would set the minimum and maximum size to the same number.
"Minimum and maximum of 1.5 times your installed ram, so if you have 2 gb of ram, that's 3072 MB of hard drive space, set asside for Virtual memory.. Reconsider the maximum size if you are using GIANT video's 4+GB per file etc, then you will want to have virtual memory set to the biggest file size that you are most likely to encounter while working with things like video capture/encoding"
This means a minimum of 1.5 times the amount of installed ram, and then the maximum size equal to or greater than the largest expected video capture file size. Or, the minimum and maximum pagefile size is set to 25% larger than the expected total used memory durring video capture.
Video capture file sizes can exceede 4GB, if you don't have enough virtual memory and system memory "cumulative" 2GB plus 3gb=5GB, You may need to exceede the expected file size by 25% or 50%, to leave room in the MAIN system RAM/memory area for programs and processes.
If you have a maximum consumed total memory/virtual memory of 6GB durring a video capture, you would want to increase the page file size settings to 4GB+25% or total pagefile of 5120MB "minimum and maximum.. however, doing this put's the addresses of the virtual memory area in the main system RAM address space.. This consumes more regular system memory, reducing available RAM resouces for regular programs and applications...
The reason that I recommend the fixed pagefile size; minimum and maximum same number, is that you don't want windows to dynamically resize the pagefile in the middle of processes. If the memory is already full, windows may not be able to remember where data was at, prior to the dynamic pagefile resize...
The virtual memory was addressed to a specific part of the hard drive. It has the addressable area set in main memory, then that addressable area changes on the hard drive....
If windows forgets where data is stored on the hard drive, it will give you a memory read error in the form of a blue screen of death "stop error" because windows tries to look up the data that used to be on a certain part of the hard drive..
It's important to carefully plan the maximum ammount of pagefile that you might need.. and or reduce the videocapture total file size, so that you do not exceede the resouces available..
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