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Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File
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."
Would Mr. File please pick up one of the white courtesy phones? Your OS needs to talk to you.
They might want to adjust the paging file on their web server a bit...
Given the speed of the slashdotting, I'd say he needs to add more ram to his box, and stop relying on the paging file for speed...
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Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
... for people who are not overly blessed with RAM.
You mean those who's PHBs said the "minimum" requirements were good enough.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
and It's called a paging file, because if they call it swap they couldn't get the patent!
Or maybe the will be figthing trying to convince the world that they came up with the idea of a swap space!
thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM.
She has money, she has a title, she has huge... tracts of RAM!
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This seems unfair since I'm assuming you have admin privs on her box
It's 44 Pages!! I mean heck, the average /. doesn't read one page news stories, but a 44 Page Article!? Not in this lifetime.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
What are you talking about?! Men never have admin privs on a woman's box.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
c'mon, who gives a fsck?
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
For God's sake, put a Printer Friendly link on your site so I can print the whole article. Having to read lots of text on my 14" EGA monitor makes my head asplode!
Probably from low amounts of RAM, and slow fragmented swap file usage.
At least, not after marriage.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Hey - That's better than her rights being set to "Everyone".
Would you want admin privs on her box?
Sorry to get personal, man. Just in fun, right?
Here's a hint. You can tell Apache to deny access to slashdot.org referrers. That won't prevent people from entering the URL manually, though. Oh, did I say that?
Access to her box is on a per-request basis, most likely.
No, I don't want admin privileges on her box. I don't want to have to deal with daily admin tasks. Instead, I am a power user. Oh yeeeeah!
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
and you basically have an invisible, un-fragmentable swap file that is invincible to user stupidity (I share my computer with my wife, so that last point is important. She does not have Administrator privileges on my box).
This seems unfair since I'm assuming you have admin privs on her box
If she reads that last comment, I'm thinking those rights are gonna get revoked...:)
I was in the park the other day wondering why frisbees get bigger and bigger the closer they get - and then it hit me.
I'll settle for 'read-only'.
Signed, the neighborhood peeper.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
It's called "root" privileges. Thanks.
No sig for now.
The real problem is where you get a nude sunbather, and they give you read-only access.
To change the swappiness, say, to 40:
You sir, are the coolerist. It sweets up the language to add colorfulistic verbing and adverbly structures like the one you buildily made aboverness.
Rockeringly on, dude!
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Who needs a page file when you have a 10.00 GHz AMD Athlon, a 2000 MB DIMM, and a 30000 GB IDE Hard Disk http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 22ACYK
I quote from a review:
"I was a little skeptical at first on how this thing would perform. However, when I installed and run the Seti@home program it started instantly finding alien signals, which where corrected, cleaned up and translated.
I am now listening and talking to the supreme galactic defense minister about Earths surrender. Apparently this computer is not only tapping into the sun for power but also into the mysterious dark energy and tearing the universe apart. Just comes to show how bugs always show up in technology when you least expect it."
"What are you talking about?! Men never have admin privs on a woman's box."
Pity this discussion is strictly academic for the contributers.
"Derp de derp."
Yeah, but there's always back-door methods.
Yeah, but there's always back-door methods.
Huh huh... he said back door... huh huh...