Re: Virtual memory on systems with a lot of RAM

Miha

Read the Article by Alex Nicholl
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

The Windows operating system needs to use virtual memory for some operations. The memory dump when a Fatal Error occurs needs approaching 50 mb. For most operations, however, RAM memory will be used in preference to virtual memory. You need to understand that the system grants allocations of virtual memory to a programme but this is only used on a required basis. Most of the time it will not be used. You can monitor actual usage of the pagefile using pagefilemon.

A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

Graphics and camera related programmes will bump up pagefile usage from a typical 50 mb to a much more significant figure. Editing using an undo feature pushes up pagefile usage.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Miha" <Miha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A24EBFD1-2264-4D9B-9919-3FE115F3F7DA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
But I don't get this “To take advantage”. How can be using slow hard drive
advantage over using 1000x times faster RAM if having plenty of RAM?


Miha

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