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page file usage
Name: osaru Date: February 17, 2004 at 19:40:55 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Eventhough I turned off the page file, I still see the page file usage in windows task manager. How come?
Name: johnnywasnaked Date: February 17, 2004 at 21:16:38 Pacific
Reply:
re-enable the page file and set it to 100 mb.
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Response Number 2
Name: Alex40 Date: February 18, 2004 at 06:00:52 Pacific
Reply:
You can disable use of the pagefile but you cannot turn off the use of virtual memory.
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Response Number 3
Name: osaru Date: February 19, 2004 at 01:24:13 Pacific
Reply:
What is the difference between page file and virtual memory? Is the usage I see in the windows task manager virtual memory? thanks
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Response Number 4
Name: Alex40 Date: February 19, 2004 at 05:22:08 Pacific
Reply:
The pagefile is an area of the hard drive that cannot be used for anything other than virtual memory. Even if there is no pagefile XP will still use the hard disk, so what you see in the Task Manager would be use of the hard disk by the virtual memory manager. As for the first question, the page file is a reserved area of the hard disk, whereas virtual memory is a more general term that means using the hard disk for memory. In otherwords, the pagefile is used for virtual memory. If you turn off the pagefile XP will create a temporary area to use for virtual memory, which is what you see in the task manager.
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