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Well I was thinking if I have 4 GB of Ram on Win XP (x86) would the performance be better if I reduce or eliminate the amount of virtual memory (cause I think it uses a part of the HD for that).
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Disabling VM will not help. In fact it can prevent some programs from running. Most of the info put into VM is stuff windows is not using. If your playing a game, the game will not be in VM but other programs that don't need to be running can be put in VM freeing up more memory for your game. So in a way disabling VM makes your system use more physical memory then what it needs to.
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You can't really see in the task manager how much is paged out. That virtual memory is not the same as the paging file. |
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VM will use the page file though for not-needed data. Thus if you disable the pagefile you force windows to keep in memory all the stuff that it doesn't need reducing the amount of memory available to other programs.
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