How To Improve Your Swapfile Performance
September 29th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under
If you have more than 256MB of RAM on your PC this tweak will considerably improve your performance. What it does is tell your PC to use every last drop of RAM before using the swap file, which is slower than real RAM.
To enable this tweak is easy. Just follow the steps below:
- Go to Start then Run
- Type ‘msconfig.exe’ then click ‘ok’
- Click on the System.ini tab
- Expand the 386enh tab by clicking on the plus sign
- Click on new then in the blank box type ‘ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1′
- Click ‘OK’
- Then restart your PC
Once you’ve restarted your PC will have much better memory management.
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Comment by Larry Miller on 23 June 2008:
The author does not mention this but this setting is for Windows 98 and ME only. It will do nothing in XP or any other NT platform OS. In these systems the system.ini file is maintained for compatibility with old 16 bit applications only. Most settings will be ignored. Even in Windows 98 the setting did not work as described. It did not prevent swap file usage until physical memory was exhausted, it simply used it less.
Comment by Python on 12 September 2008:
@Larry Miller
Then Is there a way to archieve the same effect under XP or Vista (besides disabling the swap-file)?