On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:29:49 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

>GT <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote
>
>>>> Let me summarise:
>>>> It is a fact that reading a page from virtual memory will be slower than reading a page from
>>>> physical RAM.
>
>>> Not when you have enough physical ram to be able
>>> to do without a swap file and have one anyway.
>
>>>> It is a fact that Windows will use a swapfile if one is present,
>>>> regardless of the amount of physical RAM in the system.
>
>>> That's the only bit you did manage to get right and is no news.
>
>> Right then we are talking here about a system with 2GB of RAM, which can operate without a
>> swapfile. You agree with the second point here - that windows will use a swapfile whether it needs
>> to or not, so pages will be swapped out from RAM to hard disk.
>
>But not returned from the swap file to physical ram, so no effect on performance.

.... because we all know it takes ZERO time to write files,
it's only reading them that is an issue. Not.