disable page file but they are still running

supasoaker · 5 Sep 2010 at 16:15

I have disabled page files in winxp.......................but they are still running!

I have restarted several times, no page files are set and task manager says up to 600MB are being used!

I have Norton installed do you think it is doing its own thing at all? Is there anything else that could be causing this................it seems to variate with system usage so I have no idea what it could be.

by the way I have just upgraded so have LOADS of ram to spare..........

supasoaker · 5 Sep 2010 at 17:03

well I have currently setup a ramdisk to store my internet and windows temp files.

I have no paging files set and windows is saying that 3336MB are currently allocated yet no HDD has any allocated at all!

it could be the software I am using I will send them an e-mail - on another PC that I have a similar setup there are still page files running!!!

supasoaker · 5 Sep 2010 at 17:59

that would make sense - maybe windows is duplicating it for security or sommin..............

supasoaker · 5 Sep 2010 at 18:28

Broken Hope said:
Windows XP incorrectly lists memory usage as page file usage, it lists it as PF.

wow - thanks.

can you verify this at all?

supasoaker · 5 Sep 2010 at 19:57

i'm gonna set it to be really low...............thanks for the link by the way, it looks a good article!

NathanE said:
What a dumbass idea that is.

the devil makes work for idle hands as they say..............good choice in car though NathanE...............

supasoaker · 6 Sep 2010 at 11:21

J.B said:
lol, no no, tell us what you really think

There seems to be a never ending obsession with people messing around with page file settings.

seems a similar issue with the registry..............experienced users will tell you to leave them alone, others will go ahead and do all kinds of things............

i must say it is lovely having my temp internet files on a ramdisk, youtube is now as fresh as anything - only problem is the person I did it for uses Outlook Express which is now having display issues - am currently on the case, got it working but need to do a few more things..............

supasoaker · 6 Sep 2010 at 12:32

awesome link - don't worry I am becoming a convert of having to work with windows!

I will quote an opinion from the link though:

"On Solaris it was/is even more involved. The swap file is mirroed in a ram disk like tmpfs so the memory is always almost full - but it is apparently provable that this is the optimal strategy"

Damn..............