kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>>>>>>> Pagefile isn't necessarily any faster than rest of HDD,

>>>>>> Wrong. Random access to the indexed page file
>>>>>> is a lot quicker than going thru the file system
>>>>>> with stuff that is too big for the file system cache.

>>>>> When did you plan on having random access to these giant files?

>>>> Nothing to do with random access to giant files, everything
>>>> to do with what files end up not in the file system cache.

>>> Still doesn't remove the performance penalty of
>>> reading it in, paging it out, and still reading it in again.

>> You dont know it does that when you have enough physical ram
>> so that a pagefile isnt necessary and you have one anyway.

> Yes I do,

No you dont.

> but apparently you don't.

We'll see...

> That's how it's written to work,

No it isnt, when you have enough physical ram so that
a pagefile isnt necessary and you have one anyway.

> it pages out ahead of time before it actually knows
> how much memory you might need for the *next* task.

Wrong when you have enough physical ram so that
a pagefile isnt necessary and you have one anyway.

Its completely trivial to prove what it actually does when you have enough
physical ram so that a pagefile isnt necessary and you have one anyway.

Try it, and then get a very large towel for your face, again.