Re: low memory
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Date: 18 Mar 2004 00:13:05 -0600
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>
> >> I am using Windows Xp Home Edition and after awhile of
> >> running a program the computer starts to slow down then
> >> eventually I get a "Low Memory" message.
> >
> > Low memory "messages" in windows are often NOT due to low
> memory, but
> > low disk cache space.
>
> Plato, you presumably mean "page file," not "disk cache" Note
> that paging is not only not the same as caching, it's almost its
> exact opposite.
Yep, thanks
> Caching is using a faster medium in place of a slower one (for
> example, RAM instead of disk) to speed up a process. Paging is
> using a slower medium in place of a faster one (disk instead of
> RAM); this lets you do things that you otherwise couldn't, at a
> cost in speed.
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(microsoft.public.win2000.general) - Re: Re-read an image
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(borland.public.delphi.non-technical) - Re: Running without a swap file
... All that this will do is charge the commit limit against the RAM so a large portion of the RAM will just go unused and unusable. ... If there is no paging file and if the operating system needs to page it will start paging executable code back to the disk, it will dump executable back to the disk where it came from. ...
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