XP Pro and page file odds

[DragonFire]

Ok I'm running XP pro with 1gig of ram and I set my pagefile for all drives to 0...

However, dxdiag says windows is using a 200+ meg pagefile and Sandra says my max pagefile is 926megs, then says my page file size is 4294967199MB, and then lists my free pagefile as 706MB...

Why is XP using a pagefile when I told it not to and what are the sandra values so messed up?

Also, why is it using a pagefile at all when I have 600+ MB free in physical memory?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Because trying to turn off the pagefile is stupid. XP pages out crap that hasn't been used in a while. It's a feature. Turn it on, leave it alone, and forget about it.

 

[Nothinman]

Why is XP using a pagefile when I told it not to and what are the sandra values so messed up?

Because the MS developers understand VM and the need for a pagefile more than you do, you should never run Windows without a pagefile.

 

[bsobel]

Why is XP using a pagefile when I told it not to and what are the sandra values so messed up?

Because it's required (that is different from saying with that much memory it is going to be used). XP provides pagefile reservations for physical memory in case it needs to be swapped out (and certain specific API's require a paging file for backing store, such as NULL memory mapped files...)

As the others stated, down turn it off.

Bill