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Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File

Posted by Zonk on from the overly-blessed-with-RAM dept.

busfahrer writes "Adrian's Rojak Pot has a nice article about the internals of the Windows paging file. It explains what a paging file is and lists the differences between a swapfile and a paging file. But first and foremost, a large part of the article deals with the various methods of optimizing the Windows paging file, thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM."

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  1. Shut the windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    But first and foremost, a large part of the article deals with the various methods of optimizing the Windows paging file, thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM.

    One method will definitely work. Stop windows and switch over to linux or BSD which have better mechanism of dealing with pages and swap.

  2. TERRI SCHIAVO TOUCHED MY JUNK LIBERALLY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In her very own special words: gggguuuuurrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnllllllll

  3. Re:corrupt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    use linux, you muppets.
    ..

  4. Re:Best advise by Astrorunner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I realize that my posting could be construed that way, but what I'm really trying to drive at is that some people are stuck at stage 7 of the Evolution of a Linux User.

    These people can be, by far, the most annoying.

    Some people are just so blinded by their zealosness, that they end up annoying everyone that they meet with their "Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ" schlock. Regardless of the validity of the point, firing that off as a knee jerk reaction will quickly get you labeled as an ass hat in many people's books.

  5. Re:Defrag first, man. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you stupid fucking cunt. how about you fuck off and die.