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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:40:04 PST8
From:	jbrush@aros.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OT: W2K pagefile.sys

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In , on 11/15/04
at 04:34 PM, "Jeffrey Race" said:

>I'd be interested in hearing why the pagefile is dimensioned at 1.5xRAM.
>What's the point of having RAM?

I do not understand how Windows uses the page file, and so I hope someone
can touch on some technical details as well.

All that I know is that Windows does not use the swap the same way OS/2
does. It does not use up all available RAM and then begin swapping. For
some reason, and in ways I don't understand, it does some swapping to
RAM, and some to the page file.This causes a lot of disk activity even
when there is a ton of RAM available. What I don't understand is how
Windwoes decides what goes to RAM, and what goes to the page file on the
drive.

I guess you can use no swap file and force it, but I have never tried
that, so I cannot comment. I only know that I can have a page file active
with several hundred megs, and over 128 megs of RAM still open as well.

After what I have read here, I think I will try and run just a RAM swap
file and see what happens.

John

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