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page filing Memory
Name: Annie Date: May 28, 2002 at 15:44:48 Pacific
Comment:
Can anyone explain to me what page filing is? and if when you buy memory there is page filing memory and regular memory, or if its the same thing?
Name: thekid Date: May 28, 2002 at 20:05:31 Pacific
Reply:
I assume you are referring to the 'page file', same thing as the 'swap file'. It is an area on the HDD set aside by windows to use approximately the same way as the ram memory... except that it's much slower than ram. The more memory you have(up to some practical point), the less windows has to 'page' files to the swap file. A computer without enough memory(and that's less than is thought by many people for most users) will run slower in general, because of the 'paging'(or swapping) files in and out of the 'page file' on the HDD.
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