unneeded page file use

[Phil]

Where is the swapping algorithm documented? I bought 1.5 GB
of ECC RDRAM for a database app that uses about 1.3 GB max.
I wanted it to run in memory with no swapping, but when it
gets around 1 GB Win2K starts using the pagefile. I even
tried to reduce it to the minimum of 2 MB, and it complains
that I don't have enough and adds more anyway. But my
entire app never uses more than real RAM available. Can I
control this behavior?

 

[MadDog]

-----Original Message-----
Where is the swapping algorithm documented? I bought 1.5 GB
of ECC RDRAM for a database app that uses about 1.3 GB max.
I wanted it to run in memory with no swapping, but when it
gets around 1 GB Win2K starts using the pagefile. I even
tried to reduce it to the minimum of 2 MB, and it complains
that I don't have enough and adds more anyway. But my
entire app never uses more than real RAM available. Can I
control this behavior?
.

You think that the only thing taking up memory is your
app ???

Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and click on task manager. The
Processes tab will show you what other programs are
loaded, and how much memory they're taking up. The
Performance tab will show you how much memory, physical
and virtual, you're using.


MD

 

[Phil]

MD
You made the bad assumption that I am ignorant. How do you
think I can tell how much space is being used and how much
is being paged? By viewing the task manager performance tab
as my app begins to run, of course. I can see all the
processes, how large each is, and the total consumption of
real and paged memory. That is what I am writing about.

You didn't read my question. I didn't ask how to find out
how much memory was in use. I know that by doing just what
you suggested.

My question is how to control the OS so that it uses real
RAM as long as there is more than all the processes
require? Can you help with that?

Thanks for being willing to try, even if superficially.

Phil

 

[Steve Nielsen]

You can only excercise so much control over the pagefile size before
Windows bitches about it and resizes it, just as you've experienced.
This has been discussed here and in the windowsxp.general newsgroup
recently and it seems agreed that there's no way around it. There are
some settings that make the kernal never swap to pagefile (sorry, don't
have that info at hand), which may mean nothing in your case, but I
think that's about it.

Don't let the rudeness of others on usenet bother you. Some folks can't
seem to control themselves very well.

Steve