On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:21:49 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:


>
>Wrong with an OS that has enough of a clue to not use it
>unless its necessary because there isnt enough physical memory.
>


I take it you either never used WINDOWS or never bothered
to monitor pagefile activity.

>Pity about when the pagefile is just used to provide
>faster access to the read only files on the hard drive.

That's wrong enough I don't know where to start.
Pagefile isn't necessarily any faster than rest of HDD, the
only gain there is if paging unneeded things left more
memory available for a (larger) filecache in physical
memory.



>It isnt the ENTIRE MEMORY ALLOCATION FROM THE APPS
>that matters, its the excess over the physical memory that matters.
>


Never suggested it wasn't. The fact remains that it is
possible a use(s) won't have any excess over physical memory
but windows will still have pagefile activity.