Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache
Normally, the tweak I ve seen asks you to go into
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
Management and change the value to either O or 1 to the adjustment the
LargeSystemCache.
However, in Windows...
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Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache
Normally, the tweak I ve seen asks you to go into
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
Management and change the value to either O or 1 to the adjustment the
LargeSystemCache.
However, in Windows XP, all you have to do is:
• Right-click My Computer.
• Select Properties.
• Click Advanced.
• Choose Performance.
• Click Advanced again.
• Select either Programs or System Cache under Memory Usage.
Programs = 0 for the registry tweak equivalent
System Cache = 1 for the registry tweak equivalent
• On NT Server (in this case XP), the Large System Cache option is
enabled, but disabled on Workstation.
The two different settings effect
how the cache manager allocates free memory.
If the Large Cache option is
on, the manager marks all the free memory, which isn t being used by the
system and/or applications, as freely available for disk caching.
• On the flip-side (with a small cache), the manager instead only sets aside
4MB of
Less
