Re: Performance benefits of rep/loop?

From: Ivan Korotkov (koroNOSPAMtkov2_at_ztelDOT.ru)
Date: 05/29/04

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    > Page stealing or whatever you'd like to call it is a good idea. Evicting
    > files from the cache to keep more than 1 GB of ram free is utterly stupid.
    > They don't even try to predict the paging demand. I turn off the swap file
    > as well to avoid this undesirable behavior.

    But Windows still is able to remove image pages from RAM and page-in them
    again, isn't it? And furthermore, doesn't it's behaviour mainly end up with
    just moving pages between stand-by and ready lists without actually
    "page-inning" and "page-outting" to/from HDD?

    Ivan

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