Re: unneeded page file use
From: Steve Nielsen (steve_nielsen_at__blahX3_lincoln.k12.or.us)
Date: 02/10/04
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:29:19 -0800
You can only excercise so much control over the pagefile size before
Windows bitches about it and resizes it, just as you've experienced.
This has been discussed here and in the windowsxp.general newsgroup
recently and it seems agreed that there's no way around it. There are
some settings that make the kernal never swap to pagefile (sorry, don't
have that info at hand), which may mean nothing in your case, but I
think that's about it.
Don't let the rudeness of others on usenet bother you. Some folks can't
seem to control themselves very well.
Steve
Phil wrote:
> MD
> You made the bad assumption that I am ignorant. How do you
> think I can tell how much space is being used and how much
> is being paged? By viewing the task manager performance tab
> as my app begins to run, of course. I can see all the
> processes, how large each is, and the total consumption of
> real and paged memory. That is what I am writing about.
>
> You didn't read my question. I didn't ask how to find out
> how much memory was in use. I know that by doing just what
> you suggested.
>
> My question is how to control the OS so that it uses real
> RAM as long as there is more than all the processes
> require? Can you help with that?
>
> Thanks for being willing to try, even if superficially.
>
> Phil
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Where is the swapping algorithm documented? I bought 1.5
>>
>>GB
>>
>>>of ECC RDRAM for a database app that uses about 1.3 GB
>>
>>max.
>>
>>>I wanted it to run in memory with no swapping, but when it
>>>gets around 1 GB Win2K starts using the pagefile. I even
>>>tried to reduce it to the minimum of 2 MB, and it
>>
>>complains
>>
>>>that I don't have enough and adds more anyway. But my
>>>entire app never uses more than real RAM available. Can I
>>>control this behavior?
>>>.
>>>
>>
>>You think that the only thing taking up memory is your
>>app ???
>>
>>Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and click on task manager. The
>>Processes tab will show you what other programs are
>>loaded, and how much memory they're taking up. The
>>Performance tab will show you how much memory, physical
>>and virtual, you're using.
>>
>>
>>MD
>>
>>.
>>
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