Re: Page file and EWF

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From: Kesavan (kesavansajeev_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: 24 Jun 2004 21:17:31 -0700

Rightly said and it gets more funny when we read you :) .I guess thats
the most that we can do :-)

KM, how does the pagefile work as an hibernation file.Does this mean
that it is a heavy stuff or it is not giving the additional RAM by
paging.

Regards,
Kesavan

"KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<uPpuaDjWEHA.2972@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> Slobodan,
>
> :-) It gets funny when we are writing posts the same time :-)
>
> What I did was very simple:
> - created an image with EWF RAM Overlay (disabled), pagefile enabled
> - FBA, see the pagefile created, EWF -enable
> - reboot and watch on the memory usage (pagefile, of course, locked by the system)
> - allocate and commit big chunks of memory (a simple test app) to eat all the RAM available and force system to paging
> - no RAM usage increase observed expect the memory consumed by the alloc-test app
>
> Does it make a sense?
>
> --
> Regards,
> KM, BSquare Corp.
>
>
> > Hi Konstantin,
> >
> > I have been told that pagefile writes go trough filesystem. (So they are overlay-ed in EWF.).
> > Could you tell me about tests that you used in determining that pagefile works as hibernation file?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Slobodan
> >
> >
> > "KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OFEFa3PWEHA.2176@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > Sean,
> > >
> > > Just change the registry values directly to move the pagefile:
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/tips/xp/renamert/default.aspx
> > >
> > > Or you can use it on protected partition as system bypasses EWF when writing
> > > the pagefile.
> > > You may find the thread discussion between me and Slobodan with related
> > > subject.
> > >
> > > KM
> > >
> > > > I plan on using EWF on CF storage, how do you relocate the page file to a
> > > > non protected volume.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Sean Gahan
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

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