Virutal Memory

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Hi,

There's no reason to. Are you encountering an issue of some sort? If so, why
do you think the virtual memory may be at fault?

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Nope.
A friend of my mention that was necessary to clean up the Virtual Memory
once a year, witch I found strange. So I wanted to investigate a little.



Dag N
 
This will be a good place to do some investigation.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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River Rat




Nope.
A friend of my mention that was necessary to clean up the Virtual Memory
once a year, witch I found strange. So I wanted to investigate a little.



Dag N
 
OK
Well I never said he was my friend but maybe you can tell him because it
looks as if both of you are MS-MVP's (which makes him closer to being your
friend) and I am sure you all have a way to communicate to each other.

So maybe you can offer some insight as to why he is wrong, or maybe we
should just search somewhere else for the information, which could be wrong
also!!!!!!!!

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River Rat




Your friend is wrong. http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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Hi, River_Rat.

Calm down and go look closely at the message tree in OE. You'll see that
both you and Frank were responding to Dag N., not to your post. And both
you and Frank pointed Dag to the same article which explains virtual memory.

RC
 
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Dag N said:
Nope.
A friend of my mention that was necessary to clean up the
Virtual
Memory once a year, witch I found strange. So I wanted to
investigate
a little.
Click to expand...


Your friend is wrong. No "cleaning up" is necessary or desirable.

Did your friend say how he goes about doing this? It isn't even
clear to me what he means by "clean up."
 
Dag said:
A friend of my mention that was necessary to clean up the Virtual
Memory once a year, witch I found strange. So I wanted to investigate
a little.
Click to expand...

Could he have meant that the pagefile should be defragged at least once a
year?
 
André Gulliksen said:
Dag N wrote:

Could he have meant that the pagefile should be defragged at least once a
year?
Click to expand...
Isn't it created new with every restart? I can see where the disk which
contains the pagefile should be defragged every now and then (maybe even
once a year whether it needs it or not).
But, the information from previous sessions has no value after that session
ends.
Jim
 
Jim said:
Isn't it created new with every restart?
Click to expand...

No, I don't think so. There is however a setting in Local Security Policy
that clears virtual memory at shutdown, which is disabled by default. I have
not tested this, but I interpret this as overwriting the pagefile with zero
values, to prevent the possibility of hackers snooping your pagefile after
you leave your desk.
But, the information from previous sessions has no value after that
session ends.
Click to expand...

Of course not. But the allocated file has, even if the contents are garbage.
 
Hi,
In case you need to reset the paging file (virtual
memory) ...what you can do is go to system properties
(where you set the paging file size, virtuaa memory size),
set virtual memory as No...that is you are not going to
use it.....restart the computer and then again set the
virtual memory to whatever you desire...Doing this will
reset the paging file.
Thanks.
Tushar
 
Hi, Jim.
Isn't it created new with every restart?
Click to expand...

In a "DOS" window, get a directory of the Root of the volume where you put
the page file. For example, type: dir X:\pagefile.sys /a
(The /a shows all files, even hidden and system files, so that you don't
have to fiddle with clearing those Attributes.)

You should see your page file. Check the date and time. It should be when
you last booted this computer. In other words, yes, the page file is
created anew each time you reboot. And, if you've set it to System Managed
Size, it probably will be 1.5 your system RAM. If you find any page files
in the Root of any volume with different time/date, delete them; they are
no-longer-used files left over from the last time you changed your virtual
memory settings and are just wasting your disk space.

If you find something different, please post back so we all will know.

RC
 
R. C. White said:
In a "DOS" window, get a directory of the Root of the volume where
you put the page file. For example, type: dir X:\pagefile.sys /a
(The /a shows all files, even hidden and system files, so that you
don't have to fiddle with clearing those Attributes.)

You should see your page file. Check the date and time. It should
be when you last booted this computer. In other words, yes, the page
file is created anew each time you reboot.
Click to expand...

You are wrong. Try typing 'dir /a /tc pagefile.sys.' The /tc is for
displaying _creation_ date, rather than last modified date. Most likely you
will discover that this file is older than your last reboot. In other words:
pagefile.sys is _not_ recreated at boot.
 
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