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Windows XP and the paging file

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KingNothing

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I have a 2.4GHz Dell 8250 with 256 MB RDRAM (soon to be 768).

Right now I have Initial Size set to 2 MB and Maximum Size set to 768. "Currently Allocated" says "384MB", which is the same as it was before I changed the minimum size to 2.

StatBar is telling me that 64 of my 256MB of RAM is currently in use. Does 384MB mean that's just how big the file is or is that actually how much data is being stored in the paging file?
 
384M is probably the size of the pagefile, not how much data is in it. That seems even more likely because 384M is 1.5x the size of your physical memory and that's the default IIRC.
 
Is there any way to force windows to use the RAM more aggressively than the page file? I have 1gb of RAM and would really, REALLY like to use as much RAM as I can. Bleh, teh page file is stoopid.
 
Is there any way to force windows to use the RAM more aggressively than the page file? I have 1gb of RAM and would really, REALLY like to use as much RAM as I can. Bleh, teh page file is stoopid.
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Contact MS tech support and see what they say, you do get atleast 1 free call with an XP license, right?

And I'm sorry, but you can't call something 'stoopid' until you really understand it's purpose, come back and complain when you've designed a better working VM subsystem than MS' developers.
 
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Is there any way to force windows to use the RAM more aggressively than the page file? I have 1gb of RAM and would really, REALLY like to use as much RAM as I can. Bleh, teh page file is stoopid.
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With every OS after Win98, it is done automatically. For best results, set your min and your max to some number (for you 384 probably) and leave it at that.
 
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Is there any way to force windows to use the RAM more aggressively than the page file? I have 1gb of RAM and would really, REALLY like to use as much RAM as I can. Bleh, teh page file is stoopid.
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Ok, most of these page file posts are based on a misunderstanding that 'page file usage' means that windows is using the pagefile instead of RAM. Actually Windows is using the RAM aggresively, it just has to reserve space in the paging file incase you later need to swap out. For example, my system has 2 gigs of memory, however if i look at task manager it says my PF usage is 259MB. Reserve doesn't mean that doesn't I've swapped out 259MB of data, it just means that 259MB of space has been taken away from the max available to allocate from the paging file incase I need it. That 259MB number works out be pretty much be the same as my commit charge (265916k), the amount of memory I'm actually using at this moment.

Make sense?
Bill




 
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