06.10.06
Take It All You Greedy Bitch
Last night my computer started to really crawl. And I don’t exactly have a wimpy box. Here is what I do have:
- AMD64 2800
- 1gb PC3200 RAM
- GeForce 4 6800 Ultra 256mb
- Two striped 160gb SATA drives
So it is frustrating when Windows runs like total garbage. So I look at my page file usage and it is over 2 God damn gigs. I hard set it to match my physical memory, but it doesn’t seem to care. Now it only goes up to 1.7gigs and then Windows yells at me for not having enough virtual memory. Nothing in Task Manager is using more then 30mb or RAM. Just booting up Windows and looking at my memory usage, 50% of my physical memory is gone and the page file is at 500mb. This is before loading a single app.
So either I need some help making Windows not suck nuts or I need to buy 3 gigs of RAM. Which I’m not totally against, I’m just not confident Windows wont gobble all of that up as well. I am constantly running Spybot, Ad-Aware, and AVG and they never find anything.
I’ve been wanting to separate work from play, so maybe my 3rd option would be to dual boot Windows and Linux again. Only thing I don’t like about that is I like to quickly transition between work and gaming. 15 minute breaks here and there. Or I like to work while gaming. Slow CoH missions and I can get some decent work done. The other issue is my storage. Never found a smooth way to handle a dual boot. Neither OS needs all 320gb to itself, but they do need most of that shared. Only Fat32 is comfortably supported in Linux, but I wouldn’t even be able to rip a damn DVD if I did that.
Eventually the solution will be a Mac Mini on a KVM probably. For now, looks like it’s off to Newegg for 3 gigs of RAM. Will probably be my last big PC upgrade for a long time.