tweaking the policy of pageout

[viki]

How can I stop Windows from aggressively paging out my programs
to pagefile in the situation when all my programs + buffers+kernel
fit very well into physical RAM ( 20-30% of physical RAM free )
in situation when I cannot disable pagefile (which would
considerably improve responsiveness) but I need to keep large
pagefile ..
How can I tell WIndows to minimize usage of pagefile to the max ?
Any registry key ?

My experience is that in the situation described above, XP
aggressively pushes (pages out) user pages from RAM to pagefile,
which
puts responsiveness to the knees. The only way I know to improve this
is to
makes pagefile very small or disable it (indeed that improves
responsiveness) but I cannot reduce or disable pagefile: I need to
keep large
pagefile for the rare cases when processes grow.

How can I make Windows miminize use of pageout when there is free
RAM ?

Thanks
Viki

 

[HeyBub]

How can I stop Windows from aggressively paging out my programs
to pagefile in the situation when all my programs + buffers+kernel
fit very well into physical RAM ( 20-30% of physical RAM free )
in situation when I cannot disable pagefile (which would
considerably improve responsiveness) but I need to keep large
pagefile ..
How can I tell WIndows to minimize usage of pagefile to the max ?
Any registry key ?

My experience is that in the situation described above, XP
aggressively pushes (pages out) user pages from RAM to pagefile,
which
puts responsiveness to the knees. The only way I know to improve this
is to
makes pagefile very small or disable it (indeed that improves
responsiveness) but I cannot reduce or disable pagefile: I need to
keep large
pagefile for the rare cases when processes grow.

How can I make Windows miminize use of pageout when there is free
RAM ?

What makes you think Windows is paging unnecessarily? That's contrary to
design and experience.