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| 09-09-2007 | #1 |
| | page file usage Hi all, I have 64bit Premium and 4GB RAM. I'm having problems with a certain game (oblivion) keep crashing, and on their forum posted the dxdiag details on their request. It showed, Memory: 4094MB RAM Page File: 1350MB used, 6993MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 10 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode and I was advised that my page file usage is high, even by Vista standards. I was pointed to the MS knowledgebase article where it shows you how to clean boot your PC, this time Dxdiag showed Memory: 4094MB RAM Page File: 1299MB used, 7044MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 10 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode Is this usage/file size too high? thanks Phil |
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| 09-10-2007 | #2 |
| | RE: page file usage Running Everest Ultimate, on its memory page it tells me I have the following. ---------------------------- Physical Memory Total 4093 MB Used 1058 MB Free 3034 MB Utilization 26 % Swap Space Total 8344 MB Used 987 MB Free 7356 MB Virtual Memory Total 12437 MB Used 2040 MB Free 10397 MB Utilization 16 % Paging File Paging File C:\pagefile.sys Current Size 4393 MB Physical Address Extension (PAE) Supported by Operating System Yes Supported by CPU Yes Active Yes ----------------------------- I presume the Virtual Memory: 12437 MB is referring to the sum of the Physical and the swap. But in addition to this, Everest also tells me I have a page file. I always thought a swap partition/file and a paging file did/were the same thing? I run dxdiag and am told ----------------------------------- Memory: 4094MB RAM Page File: 1299MB used, 7044MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 10 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode -------------------------------- Which must be referring to what's shown above as swap space I go to the virtual memory setting and it shows ------------------------------------ Total paging files for all drives Min 16 MB Recommended 6139 MB Currently allocated 4393 MB ------------------------------------ So I have 4GB RAM, 8GB of swap making 12GB Virtual, yet I only have around a 4GB pagefile. I'm totally confused as to what is using this other 4GB swap space. |
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