What setting should be selected for optimal performance.1 Custom Size2.System managed size3.No paging FileAnd if 1 is selected what settings are appropriate? I am using a RAID 0 Configuration and currently have 1 selected with a min of 1533MB and max of 3000MB.ThanksAndy

Personally I have always used option 2.Option 3 is not a good idea at all, no matter how much RAM you have.

Thanks Ken Andy

If you have the drive space, put it to something like 5000 for min and max.

With 1GB of RAM or more, the swapfile is rarely used so it doesn't need to be very big. I have mine at min/max 512MB and this works fine. Or you could just set it to system managed. Also there's no need to have more than one swapfile really. You certainly don't need one on each partition like some suggest.There's no point in setting it to some crazy value like several gigabytes as a 32-bit OS can only address about 4 GB's of RAM (virtual or physical) anyway.

I use a custom size (same MIN and MAX... helps minimize the fragmentation) and I put the whole shebang on the first partition of my second drive (the OS is on the 74GB C: drive, and I made a 5GB partition on the 37GB drive and labeled that partition D: ). Nothing else is on the D: partition but the Virtual Memory.Because XP uses the NT Kernel running the system with no Virtual Memory is not possible. XP will make the file itself despite all efforts to eliminate it.Greg

So you have 5GB of virtual memory? With FS9 running, total memory usage tends to about 700-800 MB for me. When I accidently resize a screenshot to 1280% instead of 1280 or do something stupid like that is the only time memory usage increases beyond my 1GB of physical RAM :)

"So you have 5GB of virtual memory?"Nope. Currently have it set to 1GB MIN/MAX (though on my previous system I ran the same 512MB you use without problems). The extra space allows for easy defragmenting, and I can go to a larger size in the future if I wish. The size of the partition simply affords me more flexibility.Greg