Virtual Memory Benchmarking

2 Hell and Back

Can anybody recommend benchmarking software that would be able to test the performance impact that increased virtual memory would bring.

Been searching for the past while but nothing seems to consider virtual memory at all.

Thanks.

Torqay

2 Hell and Back wrote: »

the performance impact that increased virtual memory would bring.

There is no such benchmark software, as increasing the virtual memory does not have any performance impact. Just let Windows handle it, "nobody does it better."

If you want to increase the performance, move the page file to another hard drive (a physical disk, not another partition) as this will split the workload. But you may want to keep a small pagefile on the C: drive (memory dump in case of a crash only works on C:, IIRC).

2 Hell and Back

I probably should have mentioned this is for a college assignment, been asked to modify the swap file to improve the performace of the machine and verify it by means of a benchmarking tool.

I found this software called passmark software so I am going to try this and see what happens.

Torqay

Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory