Thread: Getting Started with the N800
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TA-t3 is offline TA-t3
2007-05-02 , 14:56
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#9
A very good posting. Just one comment:

Originally Posted by signjc View Post
Step 9. Messing around in Tools -> Control Panel -> Memory under the virtual tab, I observed that you could increase your virtual memory by 128 mb by using the internal storage card. I did this as I can't see any reason not to. I expect that it will increase performance.
No, it won't increase performance. What it will do is to help avoid some fringe cases where a program would be killed because the system ran out of memory, or, in extreme cases, the whole system shut down. What it won't do is increase performance, for that you'll need more RAM (which we can't add).

But you're right in that there's no harm doing it. On the other hand, I've not enabled it and I have yet to run into out-of-memory errors, but I limit myself to not having more than 5-6 programs running at the same time, and usually only 3 (say, mameo mapper+pdf reader+Opera)
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