system performance

programming concepts

The Computer Performance Shell Game

The performance of any computer is akin to a shell game. The computer performance shell game, also known as "find the bottleneck", is always played between these four resources: * CPU * Disk * Network * Memory At any given moment, your computer is waiting for some operation to complete on one

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virtual memory

Running XP with the pagefile disabled

If you have 2 gigabytes (or more) of memory in your PC, have you considered turning off your pagefile? Here's how to do it: 1. Control Panel, System 2. Advanced tab 3. Performance group, Settings button 4. Advanced tab 5. Virtual Memory group, Change button 6. Select "

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