Re: Disabling the page file doesn't really disable it. A bug?

To put it bluntly - you really do not understand pagefile function. The only
relationship between RAM and the pagefile is that Windows will use the
amount of RAM installed as a "default" guide to set the pagefile size.

Note - Windows will always create and utilize VM (aka pagefile) regardless
of the amount of RAM installed - and whether or not you have "disabled" the
pagefile.

Comparing RAM usage versus VM(pagefile) is the orange/apple stuff.
Basically RAM is utilized by "current" running program threads - VM stores
"recently" used threads on the theory they will be recalled shortly -
thereby having them more accessible (faster memory access).


<nivtwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tried disabling the pagefile using the "No paging file" option on
the advanced tab of "My computer" properties . I restarted the
computer, the file pagefile.sys is missing (as it should be), but I
still see that windows is paging a lot of memory to a pagefile when I
look at the "VM usage" column of most processes on Task Manager. The
"page faults" column also shows many page faults for certain
applications that I am using. The total memory of all my processes
never reaches 1GB, which is half the memory I have (2GB), so there is
no reason for windows to swap to a page file. Therefore I tried
disabling it, although I know several articles advised not to do so
( Giving not good enough or even wrong reasons in my opinion)

I have more than enough RAM (2GB) for all my applications memory
needs, but I still see that Windows by default swaps about 1/2 of the
application memory usage to the page file on the disk. This happens
with almost all applications.
For example the total memory usage of firefox with 60 tabs open is
~600MB, and windows swaps ~300MB to the page file on disk according
to the Task manager (the "VM usage" column)

I am using Windows XP SP3.




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