liquid-angel opened this issue on Apr 12, 2005 ยท 29 posts
svdl posted Tue, 12 April 2005 at 2:42 PM
Windows does use the pagefile indeed, even if you have lots of RAM. But - it does use it cached. The "unused" RAM is just used as a disk cache, which effectively means that swapping to the page file hardly slows down the system. Every modern OS is designed this way, it allows for a much more versatile RAM use than keeping things in dedicated memory. I don't understand why P5 SR 4.1 hangs on an AMD64 with XP Pro SP2. It runs fine and fast on my AMD64 3500+ / 4 GB RAM /XP Pro SP2.
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