Originally posted here by nihil
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1. Increasing the amount of RAM will not slow your computer. Whether you will notice much difference depends on what you use the machine for. If you run photo manipulation, CAD and some games you will notice an improvement beyond 512Mb. If you just do basic tasks you quite probably will not. It is a law of diminishing returns.

2. There is no "magic formula" for the "page file". I would recommend that you have one, but logically the more physical memory you have the less virtual memory you need. I would let Windows manage it and only change it if you encounter out of memory problems.

Cheers
What if it is a Linux/Unix box, what would you recommend creating?