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How to reduce disk thrashing (paging)?

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Mar 15, 202628400 views
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I have 4 GB of RAM, but Windows still thrashes disk sometimes (especially often when an application is minimized for some time and then I activate it again). Completely stupid, because Task Manager shows 2 GB of RAM are free. Is there any way to prevent Windows swapping out program memory? I tried …

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Mark Russianovich has written a good long article on Virtual Memory, Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory Virtual memory separates a program’s view of memory from the system’s physical memory, so an operating system decides when and if to s…

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