"Trevor" wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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Precisely! Virtual memory has become almost superfluous with such large
address spaces available so cheaply.
I'd agree except for the "almost"!
I've been increasing speed by turning off the swap file for years.
Turning off the swap file should not increase speed.
First, if you are actually swapping out running programs, turning
off swap is not going help anything but will probably cause either
a system crash or some programs to be killed.
But second, and I have no idea if Windows does this or not but any
decent OS should swap out inactive data segments to provide more
RAM for use as disk cache. That is, allowing at least some swap to
be used will result in a faster system overall.
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