using no page filing in windows 2K
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Original Message
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Name: rjackson2090
Date: April 1, 2004 at 16:19:04 Pacific
Subject: using no page filing in windows 2K
OS: Windows XP Professional a
CPU/Ram: amd athlon 2600+, 512 mb
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Comment: well im used to using no page filing in xp, (where there is an option) but in 2000 there is no option, so i set the max and the min both at zero, and it works but when i boot i get a popup saying i should increase, also when i goto system it will allocate a temp page file. Is there anyway to get it to stop allocating the temp page file, and showing the pop up?? thank you.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Rambler
Date: April 1, 2004 at 16:31:53 Pacific
Subject: using no page filing in windows 2K |
Reply: (edit)Running with no pagefile in XP wastes your RAM, because the OS normally pages out uneeded stuff like system error routines that are unlikely ever to get run. Similarly DLL's are kept loaded after applications are terminated. With no pagefile, these are all stored in RAM. Same applies to W2K, except it'll (rightly) refuse to run without a minimal pagefile. Why this obsession many people seem to have trying to get a Virtual Memory OS to run entirely in real memory, when you've got loads of cheap secondary storage (HD) available?
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Response Number 2
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Name: rjackson2090
Date: April 1, 2004 at 16:41:15 Pacific
Subject: using no page filing in windows 2K
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Reply: (edit)i thought it ran faster if you used no page filing???
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Response Number 3
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Name: Dick Johnson
Date: April 1, 2004 at 19:16:07 Pacific
Subject: using no page filing in windows 2K |
Reply: (edit)No operating system runs FASTER without a page file!!!! Try loading Linux without a Swap File, and see what happens. A No PageFile is a BAD IDEA!
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Response Number 5
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Name: Rambler
Date: April 2, 2004 at 23:25:42 Pacific
Subject: using no page filing in windows 2K |
Reply: (edit)Some people are so obsessed with this that they allocate a large RAMDISK, and move the pagefile there. A REALLY dumb idea - the RAMDISK holds less pages than that amount of memory would hold if it was left as just RAM. The OS moves unused pages in RAM out to the pagefile - which is in RAM! A similar idea is to put Temporary Internet Files on a RAMDISK for "speed". What you end up with in this case is a large chunk of RAM where most of it is never accessed - just what a virtual-storage OS is designed to avoid. The OS keeps the TIF INDEX.DAT in RAM anyway, and if you've got sufficient RAM, frequently-accessed directory entries and TIFs will be in the filecache - in RAM.
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Response Number 6
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Name: Wink
Date: April 27, 2004 at 18:30:16 Pacific
Subject: using no page filing in windows 2K
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Reply: (edit)i have the opposite problem. i want to set the page filing, but after i set it and reboot, its still at 0mb and set at no page filing
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