[Laurence Payne]

On 22 Oct 2007 15:04:51 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Are you maybe falling into the common trap of thinking Virtual Memory
= paging file?

The paging file PLUS the physical memory IS the virtual memory space
available. This is early-1970s technology we are talking about here.

Nope. The virtual memory space is always 4GB (or whatever it is on
your os). No "available" or not about it. How much of it is mapped
onto physical resources is another matter.

You're falsely extrapolating how a system with inadequate physical
memory gets by into how a modern system will behave. Windows isn't
perfecy, but I think it's a lot cleverr than you give it credit for
:-)