paging file set to 0 but disk space is not freed

[tomcat]

Hi all

I have set the paging file to None and rebooted. Now the paging file is
set to 0 but the disk space has not been freed.

Why?


thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Because maybe the pagefile.sys still exists? Or perhaps that was not the
problem?

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[Michael Palumbo]

Hi all

I have set the paging file to None and rebooted. Now the paging file is
set to 0 but the disk space has not been freed.

Why?


thanks

Pagefile.sys is most likely still sitting on your drive using the space.

I would like to note though: turning off the page file has no benefit and
will sometimes cause some problems with some types of software.

It hurts nothing to have a page file available, and often is beneficial
regardless of how much 'real' RAM you have since little, or never used
portions of loaded software (operating system included) will be dumped to
the page file, freeing up 'real' RAM' for use by other
operations/software/etc.

I ran into a problem with a recording program once, years ago and I can't
remember the name of the software, but at the time having 1 gig of RAM was
HUGE (this was back when 256 megs was a lot) so I turned off the page file
thinking I was doing a good thing, forcing everything to run in 'real' RAM.

Every time I tried to record something with this software it would stutter
badly. I attempted time and time again to fix the problem (or find a cause)
to no avail, until on a whim, I reactivated the page file and "low and
behold!" the program worked exactly as it should have.

To this day I don't know why it needed to have the page file active, it just
did, so I've never turned off the page file since, on any operating system
I've installed/used. And now that I know the benefits of having one, I'm
glad to keep it there, doing its job, quietly in the background.

Mic

 

[Not Me]

Pagefile.sys is most likely still sitting on your drive using the space.
I would like to note though: turning off the page file has no benefit and
will sometimes cause some problems with some types of software.
It hurts nothing to have a page file available, and often is beneficial
regardless of how much 'real' RAM you have since little, or never used
portions of loaded software (operating system included) will be dumped to
the page file, freeing up 'real' RAM' for use by other
operations/software/etc.
I ran into a problem with a recording program once, years ago and I can't
remember the name of the software, but at the time having 1 gig of RAM was
HUGE (this was back when 256 megs was a lot) so I turned off the page file
thinking I was doing a good thing, forcing everything to run in 'real'
RAM.

Every time I tried to record something with this software it would stutter
badly. I attempted time and time again to fix the problem (or find a
cause) to no avail, until on a whim, I reactivated the page file and "low
and behold!" the program worked exactly as it should have.

To this day I don't know why it needed to have the page file active, it
just did, so I've never turned off the page file since, on any operating
system I've installed/used. And now that I know the benefits of having
one, I'm glad to keep it there, doing its job, quietly in the background.
Mic

your program probably used more than the amount of physical ram you had
installed.
that is what the pagefile is for.
I usually install a small drive just for the pagefile (and one for my data
files), that way swapfile useage doesn't affect the performance of my main
drive.

 

[Michael Palumbo]

your program probably used more than the amount of physical ram you had
installed.
that is what the pagefile is for.
I usually install a small drive just for the pagefile (and one for my data
files), that way swapfile useage doesn't affect the performance of my main
drive.

That's what was confusing though, the RAM used when the program was
recording/playing the tracks was less than 20% of the total system RAM.

I had 1 gigabyte of RAM with a Windows 98SE machine. At the time this was
an obscene amount of RAM.

Mic

 

[dennis@home]

I had 1 gigabyte of RAM with a Windows 98SE machine. At the time this was
an obscene amount of RAM.

Also pointless for most users as win98se slowed down if you had too much
RAM.

 

[Michael Palumbo]

Also pointless for most users as win98se slowed down if you had too much
RAM.

The post was about page files, not the merits or perils of having too much
RAM using Windows 98SE.

Besides, I noticed no slowdown (and I could have many apps running at once)
with that configuration.

Mic

 

[Michael Palumbo]

And at the time would have cost a flippin' fortune. I doubt that an
average user would have plugged that amount of ram into a mobo and still
run Windows 98. It was just too unstable to deal with it.


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[Michael Palumbo]

I never said it was cheap, nor did I say I was an average user . . .

Mic

Oops, my mistake . . .

Upon further reflection it was 512 megs of RAM, not a gig, I was thinking of
when I built my first Windows XP machine . . .

Sorry for the confusion. I'm not old, but my memory is such that I may as
well be 90.

But still, a large amount of RAM and the audio recorder I was using still
needed to have the swap file present, even though it didn't appear to
actually be causing its use when recording or playing back.

This thread has turned away from the original point . . . so I'm going to
ignore it now.

Mic