Do I really need a paging file?

[Vic Baron]

One of the computer mags suggested turning off the page file if you have
more than 1G RAM. Would this be of any benefit actually?

Vic

 

[Bob I]

Nope, and may even toss up odd problems for some software.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

No.

See...
Can the Virtual Memory be turned off on a really large machine?
here...
Virtual Memory in Windows XP
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

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[Vic Baron]

Great article - explains what I was wondering about. I shall leave it alone.

Thanx!

Vic

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Lots of good stuff there. Here's the home page, if you haven't already
found it.

http://www.aumha.org/

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