Necessary to swell upto 4.7 times?

桌上電腦
CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @2.50GHz
RAM : 2GB
HDD : SATA2 500GB Hitachi Partitioned C:250GB & D:250GB
O S : Windows Vista Home Premium sp1 32b

Have just installed RVS Home 2010 free
The load on partition C: of HDD is 26GB inclusing RVS
The same load swells upto 123GB, 4.7 times inflated.
Is this necessary?
Why?
Or is anything wrong?
How to correct?

Thanks !

 

Hi fuquen,
Unless you have filled your cache, the space is only reserved, not used. Remember, the default setting is to allow a maximum of 50% of the available free space on your system partition (usually the C:\ drive).

Mike

 

Thank you Mike !

1.
Would RVS run better if the capacity of partition C were 500GB than
if the capacity of partition C were 100GB ?
2.
I have 9 and 10 year-old machines with HHD of IDE interface and capacity
only 30GB or 60GM and RAM only 256MB or 512MB and AMD Athlon 1500+ 1.35GHz or similar CPU.
Will RVS run normally on these machines?

Thank you !

 

1. Does not matter though the cache would be larger by default because the disk is larger given the setting remains the same percentage

2. We regularly test against "commodity" systems and simulate the same in VMs with similar specs using Win XP (Win 2K not supported) and RVS works well. On older systems like you describe, I would suggest you completely defragment your hard drives and do a general cleanup (temp files, etc) so you start with the best possible performance.

Mike

 

Thank you very much for taking so much time to answer the silly questions.
Really appreciate!