The main points of yours for me to disprove were these, vs. the statement you made above quoted next (they are in error & so is the one I quote in the next post below it):
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Originally Posted by trog100
i have put this to the test many times.. windows will only start to use its fake hardrive memory when it runs out of the real stuff..
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Not true!
I'll let you see for yourself how it is not in fact & gave you the experiment to do so, above.
Explorer.exe, your GUI shell, is a PERFECT EXAMPLE thereof in fact!
Its constant generation of page faults will show you this (it is paging, all the time nearly, generating "page faults" & this is the KEY to this statement of mine - even though unused RAM is present? It is PAGING!)
You'll see above for yourself:
Do perform the test I noted using taskmgr.exe, it's PROCESSES tab, & having "VM Size", "Memory Usage" (all of them present, might as well), & "Page Faults" visible on screen...
Do that, you'll see I am correct on this note.
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Originally Posted by trog100
windows does not use its swopfile unless it has to..
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Untrue!
The experiment I had you do above?
Will show you otherwise... guaranteed.
You're always using it whether you know it, or not.
Again: This IS the nature of these machines using the OS that they do... modern, virtual memory utilizing OS like Windows NT-based ones, & Linux (& others too).
APK
P.S.=> Drink it in, & digest it - because it IS how things work on these machines, & modern OS...
Whether you like it or not, pagefile gets used, ALL THE TIME, & pagefaults shown happening illustrate it perfectly in fact (as well as the experiment I ask you to do above), especially in your GUI explorer.exe shell (constantly generating pagefaults - which are access read/write IO to the pagefile.sys itself, proving paging goes on ALL the time, even if FREE RAM IS PRESENT)...
It's tough to deny the facts, ones you can see for yourself no less... & so can others, if they do what I noted above... easily analyzed! apk