most of the stuff u quote and believe is out of date and based on systems not coming with 2 gigs (enough) of real memory..
Well, when you run out of RAM one day? We will see how "out of date it is", once you run into some work or data that demands more... if you can tolerate that? Fine... personally, I cannot.
I crash my development tools or servers? I am out of the work I just did... you might have the same happen, I don't know what else you do on a PC that might eat over 2gb... you may not period, ever.
ps.. i really dont mean to offend u alec.. but its beginning to look like its how i say it is.. windows only uses its disk based memory when it runs out of the real stuff..
You are paging, this much we BOTH know... yet, you don't have a pagefile.sys, nor even a temppf.sys... you MUST be paging to disk with SOME file... question is?
What file or files??
PAGEFAULTING is paging... point-blank!
You don't page RAM to RAM...
Plus, we both see your explorer.exe doing it constantly, and your other apps too (some of the ones that behaved as I described they would, winamp in your case, paging when minimized/maximized).
Question again - where to in the case of systems w/ 2gb of RAM??
ps.. i really dont mean to offend u alec..
You're not, only the "don't make me look @ bullshit" stuff sort of did... it's NOT MY 'bullshit' man, it's apparently MS'... but, there are some things making ME wonder as noted earlier & above in this reply!
You aren't even getting the warning about pagefile.sys being missing, with 2gb of RAM on your system... yet, here, with 512mb if I lose my pagefile.sys?
I get warnings & a new one is created in root of C: drive...
the problem with quote type replies alec is it make them very dfficult to reply to and gets silly as the interchange progresses..
My man, that is attempting to impose YOUR point of view upon others, & in this case, myself.
Think about that...
Sure, you are entitled to that as it is your opinion!
BUT, I am sorry if my writing style bugs you... I do it for GOOD reason imo: Again - I just use quotes in the manner I stated above - so I don't miss any points others made when I reply back is all.
first and most relevant point alec is how do u know i am telling the truth.. u dont but u could do as u keep telling me to do.. run the same tests i am running..
Apparently, something's up here... it must have to do w/ the fact you have 2gb total, because you don't even SEE the 'warning messages' I do when my pagefile partition on my ramdisk goes out (during power outages, it happens).
Let's assume you ARE telling the truth (which I am) & that Microsoft's page is "bullshit" as you say then!
Apparently, it is missing THAT piece of information apparently, or that condition, when someone has > 2gb RAM is all.
I cannot help it if Ms' documentation is off... but again: I know that when my pagefile.sys is missing, I certainly DO see messages about it being missing & another forms in the root of C:\ as pagefile.sys.
"Ever stop to think, since I showed you that YOU ARE PAGING, even with FREE RAM PRESENT, that it is swapping/paging to someplace?"
i have no idea alec.. with no sign of any hard disk based pagefile i am some what puzzled.. i have no "temppf.sys" file.. i have no pagefile.sys file.. u tell me where is windows paging to.. ???
Heh, should be either:
1.) Pagefile.sys
or
2.) Temppf.sys
(I personally don't know of any other paging type files the system would use, other than the older Windows 3.x types, which were not named either one of those, & which we are NOT talking about here as your OR my OS version)
Neither do I @ this point - your system is 'defying' the conditions noted on that tech page from MS, dated June 2003!
i am not dealing with theory here alec just what i have in front of me.. a seeming mystery.. a fully functional xp system with nowhere else other than spare physical memory for windows to page to..
It IS a mystery, because we both KNOW you're paging via the taskmgr.exe experiment we ran... it is WAY odd.
Know what I am thinking?
That page from MS is missing conditions in which someone like yourself who has 2gb, doesn't have that happen in the conditions MS notes above @ this point (assuming you are telling it how it is & I do think you are telling it how it is over there on your rig is all).
Still, you're showing pagefaults inside taskmgr.exe process' tab on Explorer.exe your desktop gui shell... it HAS to be paging, to SOMEWHERE on disk... but where, on your system?
APK
P.S.=> BUT, it still does NOT explain where you ARE paging to, since pagefaults ARE generating from explorer.exe & we both know that is the case... NOW, I am curious as hell!
Guess what I am going to do? GOOGLE THE HELL OUT OF PAGEFILE.SYS and 2gb, & see what turns up... prefereably from MS itself!
What else can we do? I have never seen this before that I can recall @ least... apk