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Paging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computer operating systems there are various ways in which the operating system can store and retrieve data from secondary storage for use in main memory. One such memory management scheme is refer...
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Virtual memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Optimizing your page file when you're running low on RAM is always a good idea. When all physical RAM in a computer is in use, Windows starts using the hard disk as if it were additional RAM. This is why we have a Pagefile (also called the swap file).
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Table 15-4 lists the symbols you can define in MODPARAMS.DAT to control the total size of page file, swap file, system dump file, or error log dump file space space.
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For this purpose, AUTOGEN creates a SYSDUMP.DMP file on the system disk; the file is large enough to contain the maximum size ... If necessary, add a MOUNT command for each disk that holds a page or swap file. This is necessary because only the system disk is mounted at the time SYPAGSWPFILES.COM is invoked. For example:
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Note WinNT+ will not be able to create a proper memory dump for debugging purpose if the pagefile is disabled or too small. The pagefile is accessed with low level file operations to avoid the NTFS overhead. This allows use of the pagefile to save the dump even if ... swap-file, page-file, virtual-memory, free-disk-space...
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It loads what it needs to load into the much faster RAM (random access memory) memory, but creates a swap or page file on the hard drive that it uses to swap data in and out of RAM.
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