Recent content by binkyvamp

You like the word "speculation" don't you. Mmmhmm, i'm sure it is speculation that i used MS and 3rd party tools to assess MS and 3rd party applications that all exhibited the same behaviour. Riiiiight, speculation.. You just said it was speculation, not the default. Sometimes it's nice to...

Ok, this post is worth it, unlike my last one that i deleted. I just discovered the circumstances under which Windows XP will swap your programs into the pagefile. Open an Internet Explorer. Set Task Manager to "Always on top" and enable the "Mem Usage" column. The IE should be using...

Edited: Nah, nevermind. ;) Scratch that post. Grr why is there no delete button!? Uh.... Bump? lol.

Ok, one more post since you were so darn fast. Wow, i mean, you're so fast at responding to any of my posts, do you even have a life outside of the forum? I mean, look at your post count. Seriously, do you sit there and refresh constantly, or subscribe to every thread or something? As to...

It still deals with the general concept of the topic - memory exhaustion. So, yeah, i don't think it matters what I/O it is. Sure it's a bit off-topic and sort of derailing the thread, but, meh. Obviously i'm not going to find any answers around here so i'm off. It was fun while it lasted...

Well, does it really matter whether it's the pagefile or other disk I/O? This can all come down to simple semantics. The fact of the matter is, Windows is "evicting" things it shouldn't be in favour of something else, whether that be file cache, another program, just because it felt like it, or...

lmao. Actually i'm Australian, but close enough. ;) Ok, ta for the info, mate. ;) lol.. (I don't really talk like that) lmao again. Good to see some positive input - humourous to boot! Well, thanks your your input. I usually don't have a problem with things either on my system, nor does my...

Well, we've got some different experiences then.. Sometimes Windows works beautifully and as you say, won't normally just toss out a program. But sometimes it chugs like a filthy hog because it's throwing out applications when a) There's very little I/O, and b) There's plenty of free physical...

Wow, what a nitpicker... No, actually, the problem here lies in the fact that you don't know how Windows pages. You may understand paging, as i similarly do, but you don't understand it in Windows. You need more Windows time and less Linux time buddy, definitely. Windows will put any part...

You're wrong, it will use the pagefile. Windows constantly tries to keep a certain amount (God only knows how they calculate this) of RAM available for applications to reserve in physical memory immediately. You might recall programs that claim to speed up your PC by 1000% and so forth. Most of...