LordDethstar
7th April 2003, 07:49
Hello,
I've seached everywhere, but I did not find any answer to my problem. Since this is a video forum, I assume that people here may have that same problem.
Whenever I copy a big file >1.5 GB from one partition to another or over a network, windows appears to be allocating insane amounts of memory for the file cache, leaving none for other applications and even swapping their memory out to disk. That leaves the whole system unusable while copying sich a large file and about two minutes thereafter.
Is there a method that would allow me to limit the size of the Windows XP file cache. Something sells me that a file cache of 64-128 MB would be more than enough.
Btw., I have 512MB of RAM and two hard drives.
Can anyone help?
I've seached everywhere, but I did not find any answer to my problem. Since this is a video forum, I assume that people here may have that same problem.
Whenever I copy a big file >1.5 GB from one partition to another or over a network, windows appears to be allocating insane amounts of memory for the file cache, leaving none for other applications and even swapping their memory out to disk. That leaves the whole system unusable while copying sich a large file and about two minutes thereafter.
Is there a method that would allow me to limit the size of the Windows XP file cache. Something sells me that a file cache of 64-128 MB would be more than enough.
Btw., I have 512MB of RAM and two hard drives.
Can anyone help?