Re: Pagefile.sys
- From: "Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:06:30 -0500
VanguardLH wrote:
Some of Windows' exec is always paged out to
virtual
memory. There are some programs that ask for a
minimal
working set for memory but also ask for gobs of
max
memory (hundreds of megabytes), so luckily they
get
pushed into the pagefile. Even if you set the
pagefile
to zero for the Windows partition, on startup
Windows
will create a 20MB temporary pagefile named
temppf.sys
in the %systemroot%\system32 folder. A
pagefile is
ALWAYS required by Windows.
I don't know where you have gotten this
information from,
but it is not true. A paging file is NOT
required by
Windows to operate.
Actually, if there is no pagefile but one is
needed, Windows XP will create one anyway and
interrupt the user with the notices about what
it's doing, rather than allow the system to crash.
VG is also right about the temppf.sys although I'm
not sure of the name myself it looks right. If
and as soon as that's used up, you get the typical
error about the pagefile beign too small.
It's easy to check out if you wish to play with
it; it won't damage anything on your machine or,
at least, it didn't mine. But I do things like
that on a sandbox, not a production machine. And
of course ymmv always applies<g>.
Regards,
Twayne
.
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