You just answered your own question. You are working with HUGE files that
are swamping your RAM and forcing page outs to the harddrive. THAT will
always slow your system to a crawl.
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--DaveW
"gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
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>I am still seeking why my XP SP2 is bogging down.
> DFPM.EXE shows low CPU usage (often 0%), 2GB free
> 'Page Memory', 500K free 'physical memory', 81GB HDD
> free space. I see no problems here,
>
> I notice I constantly bog down often when I do a cut and paste of
> several JPGs, often 20 or 30 ~50GB files. Also when I do a file
> 'rename'. Suggests to me insufficient RAM - but I am using 1GB of
> DDR.
>
> TIA for any suggestions/directions.
>
> Gecko