[TheForge] Merry Christmas everybody!

[Darrell]

You don't have to turn it off. If you have enough RAM it won't get used.
That is why more RAM (up to the point where you don't need the page file)
speeds things up. Leave it turned on for those times that you are running
something huge or more programs than usual.

Darrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <TristerK at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Merry Christmas everybody!


>
> In a message dated 12/26/2005 2:19:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> osan at netlabs.net writes:
>
> If you
> have a very large RAM, you can do away with a paging file.  The only
> drawback there is that you cannot exceed the memory capacity, or the
> system will choke due to no place to page.  But if you don't get
> careless, this should be no problem.
>
>
> Was true years ago, these days, what with large graphic and video files
and
> the way XP deals with things it's not a good idea to turn your page file
off,
> especially if you do any kind of audio, video or graphic file editing as
the
> memory requirements for some programs can bloom up to several times the
size
> of  the file you're working with.
>
> More RAM OTOH is always better.
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