Location of system and cache partitions

[Eric Gisin]

I just tried another simple experiment...

Open Explorer. Open the Processes window in Task Manager and activate the VM column.

Access a folder or network drive with Explorer. Watch the VM usage increase. Switch to another
folder or drive. Watch it increase again. Access the folder already accessed. Watch the VM
usage increase yet again!

So, Windows is NOT simply reserving space for future usage; it is writing data to the pagefile
instead of physical RAM, and is apparently NOT reusing that data! Neither is this being done "in
the background" -- it is being done at the time of access, by the foreground process!

No, you do NOT know anything about what is written to pagefile.
Commit charge (PF usage) is allocation, not actual written.
VM usage is simple allocated memory, nothing to do with pagefile.

 

[John Weiss]

No, you do NOT know anything about what is written to pagefile.
Commit charge (PF usage) is allocation, not actual written.
VM usage is simple allocated memory, nothing to do with pagefile.

That is not what is indicated by the discussion of Virtual Memory in the
Task Manager Help topics. They relate VM directly to page files.

 

[Eric Gisin]

That is not what is indicated by the discussion of Virtual Memory in the Task Manager Help
topics. They relate VM directly to page files.

Nonsense. The description for Virtual Memory does not mention page file at all.

 

[The Rod That Failed]

Some gutless ****wit desperately cowering behind
The Rod That Failed <[email protected]> desperately
attempted to bullshit its way out of its predicament and
fooled absolutely no one at all, as always.

What "predicament" would I be in, Roddles?

Why don't you just admit that you were wrong on the "will the drive spin
up if reset is asserted" issue, Roddles?

 

[John Weiss]

Nonsense. The description for Virtual Memory does not mention page file at
all.

Bull!

Task Manager | Help | Task Manager Help Topics | Index | Memory | Usage,
Monitoring | Virtual Memory Size | Virtual Memory

 

[John Weiss]

If your system is paging, buy more RAM.

I got 2 GB. 1.2 GB of that is available. Pagefile use is still 500 MB.

What will more RAM do?

 

[CJT]

Bull!

Task Manager | Help | Task Manager Help Topics | Index | Memory | Usage,
Monitoring | Virtual Memory Size | Virtual Memory

If your system is paging, buy more RAM.

 

[CJT]

I got 2 GB. 1.2 GB of that is available. Pagefile use is still 500 MB.

What will more RAM do?

But is it actually paging? Having 500 MB reserved is much different
from _using_ that much.

 

[Vic Smith]

Bull!

Task Manager | Help | Task Manager Help Topics | Index | Memory | Usage,
Monitoring | Virtual Memory Size | Virtual Memory

Here's a good article on VM/Page File.
It's from MS itself.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223

--Vic

 

[John Weiss]

But is it actually paging? Having 500 MB reserved is much different
from _using_ that much.

How does one definitively tell what is merely reserved and what is in use?

 

[CJT]

How does one definitively tell what is merely reserved and what is in use?

Any _real_ OS would have tools for that. See the manual.

 

[John Weiss]

Any _real_ OS would have tools for that. See the manual.

Ah... so you just plain don't know...

BTW, I did find the tools and did discover it's really paging some of that.

 

[Eric Gisin]

Any _real_ OS would have tools for that. See the manual.

Like perfmon. Paging File, %Usage. Mine is 3% of 767MB.