I'm trying to figure out the best ways to get P6 running Win7 64 to cruise as snappily as possible. My setup: iMac 21.5" 3GHz 4 GB RAM with 120GB Bootcamp partition I've been switching back an forth from P6 and BC statrup without any problems. Everything is working great. I just want to see if there's a way to make the P6 approach a little zippier. When you're allocating CPU cores and memory to a Win7 Bootcamp instance, what do you do? Do you maximize what P6 gets OS X virtual memory be damned, or do you keep Win7 starved and make Win7's virtual memory have a heart attack? Or do you try to sit in the middle of both (2GB for OS X, 2GB for Win7). What about CPU cores? Do you allocate both in hopes that OS X/P6 will share well, or do you tell P6 to just use one and expect OS X to let it have a core without fuss? So yeah, that's about it. Which virtual memory hit is the most painful to performance of either while they co-exist through Parallels?
I suggest trying everything then pick the best one. I think the best will be to not go beyond 2GB. If both Mac OS X and Windows are slow then you should cut back on the Windows RAM.
