In message , Gene Wirchenko
writes:
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IIRC (and I might not), the pagefile USED TO have to be
contiguous. I have used non-Windows systems where one could specify
that a file be contiguous; I do not know why it was ever needed
though.

If you had sufficiently little RAM that your computer was constantly
using the pagefile, which slowed it down considerably (disc access being
so much slower than RAM), then anything that further slowed things down
could make it closer to unusable.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Farc gorillas who live in the plains of the undies ..." - automatic
subtitling seen on BBC one o'clock news, 2016-8-25, by Cynthia Hollingworth.