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Q6. Alison has a Windows 2000 Professional Workstation, outfitted with a single 3GB SCSI HDD and 128 MB of RAM. She works in the pre-visualization unit of a special effects house and runs a 3D animation program similar to Lightwave and 3D Studio Max on this system. Unfortunately the 3D animation program has a rather large memory requirement which means that pages will be swapped from memory to the pagefile rather regularly. Alison would like to maximize the performance of her system's pagefile and minimize the amount of fragmentation that occurs in that file. Of the options presented below, which of the following would be the best way for Alison to configure her pagefile?

A. Set the Initial size (MB) to 64 and the Maximum size (MB) to 192.

B. Set the Initial size (MB) to 2048 and the Maximum size (MB) to 2048.

C. Set the Initial size (MB) to 256 and the Maximum size (MB) to 256.

D. Set the Initial size (MB) to 128 and the Maximum size (MB) to 128.

E. Set the Initial size (MB) to 192 and the Maximum size (MB) to 128.

F. Set the Initial size (MB) to 256 and the Maximum size (MB) to 128.

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IMHO - "C"

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I ran in to this question before and I choose "C".

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Let me see, the max size should probably be larger than the initial size - so that eliminates E and F. A doesn't seem to be large enough, however, B seems too large. So that leaves C or D. And since I want my max to be larger than the actual amount of RAM, I would also choose C

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That would be ( C )

Let me see, the max size should probably be larger than the initial size - so that eliminates E and F. A doesn't seem to be large enough, however, B seems too large. So that leaves C or D. And since I want my max to be larger than the actual amount of RAM, I would also choose C

Thanks PavLov That explanation suit me just fine.

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Static size at 2x the amount of system RAM works for me. I'd go with "C" as well

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The Microsoft Answer is , of course C

In real life, however:

Upgrade the Users machine! Add another 256 megs of ram for less than $50. Come on!!!


couldn't resist, Frank.

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with "C"!

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I want to be different, am going for A

(1 and 1/2 x system memory, too big i.e. 2048 will cause fragmentation.....hmmmm...just want to be different!)

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Originally posted by wbafrank
And today's poser is ....

Q6. Alison has a Windows 2000 Professional Workstation, outfitted with a single 3GB SCSI HDD and 128 MB of RAM. She works in the pre-visualization unit of a special effects house and runs a 3D animation program similar to Lightwave and 3D Studio Max on this system. Unfortunately the 3D animation program has a rather large memory requirement which means that pages will be swapped from memory to the pagefile rather regularly. Alison would like to maximize the performance of her system's pagefile and minimize the amount of fragmentation that occurs in that file. Of the options presented below, which of the following would be the best way for Alison to configure her pagefile?

A. Set the Initial size (MB) to 64 and the Maximum size (MB) to 192.
B. Set the Initial size (MB) to 2048 and the Maximum size (MB) to 2048.
C. Set the Initial size (MB) to 256 and the Maximum size (MB) to 256.
D. Set the Initial size (MB) to 128 and the Maximum size (MB) to 128.
E. Set the Initial size (MB) to 192 and the Maximum size (MB) to 128.
F. Set the Initial size (MB) to 256 and the Maximum size (MB) to 128.

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And the answer is ....

Correct Answer: C

According to Microsoft's recommendations, if you want to achieve best performance you should set the initial size of the pagefile to not less than the recommended size under "Total paging file size for all drives". The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your system. This, naturally, is 192 MB. However you'll notice that only one of the options above presents 192 as an initial size and its maximum size is invalid.

If you will be running memory-intensive applications you will likely want to increase the pagefile size to a number that is greater than the recommended size. In addition, setting the initial pagefile size equal to the maximum pagefile size can reduce fragmentation of the pagefile and improve performance. Note that you cannot set the initial size to a number that is greater than the maximum size.

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