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Peter Hucker
April 14th 04, 08:37 PM
I looked in the task manager, and noticed that every task was using
approximately equal amounts of memory and pagefile. Also, under the =
performance
tab, a fair amount of pagefile is being used.
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I have 3GB ram.
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I have set the pagefile to 20-30MB on each of the two hard disks. =
Putting zero
or smaller amounts on either drive seems to make it ignore me and create
whopping great GB swaps!
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At the moment, task manager claims to be using 469MB of pagefile (in the
performance tab), and under the processes tab, VM sizes are similar to =
Mem usage
sizes, the largest application using 188MB of ram and 198MB of VM.
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Yet that actual pagefile.sys files in the root of the two drives are both=
30MB!
How can this be?
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The chance of a piece of bread falling down on it's buttered side is =
directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

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