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Old 01-19-2007, 11:09 AM
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"Alex Mizrahi" <udodenko@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
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> (message (Hello 'GT)
> (you :wrote :on '(Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:37:39 -0000))
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> G> I have 1.5GB RAM and I have my page file turned off. This makes things
> G> run faster as everything loaded is in RAM and never swapped out to hard
> G> disk.
>
> this is not really true..
> there are pages in memory that are loaded from EXE and DLL files, windows
> in some cases can forget about them -- replace those pages by file cache,
> for example, and they will be read back later.
> if you're using file system very intensively, you can still see some page
> faults (and delays) of applications loading back..
> you can see this in task manager, if you enabled 'page faults' column,
> does it say 0 for all columns?


38 processes at the moment. Been running system for 1.5 hours. I'm using MS
Visual Studio, Word, Excel, Outlook and Outlook express, notepad. 0 page
faults across the board.



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