Quote from GTS:
You paid for the memory, why not let the system do something useful with it? ....unless you are like the OP and bought it only for bragging rights.
I agree. When I look at the task manager on my PC running XP, it shows there is around 500 MB of free memory, and the page file is also about 500 MB. What's the point of having so much data sent to the HDD when there's so much free ram!
Obviously there's also going to be a compromise between paging data and leaving it in ram, as the optimal result would require the OS to correctly anticipate the usage. Perhaps XP being rather old, and designed when ram was generally much more precious, is simply too conservative in its ram usage.
SSDs are great for speeding up paging file usage (and other files too, of course) and result in overall faster performance, but I think Intel's 'Turbo Memory' cards are the way to go, and in many cases can provide the same benefits of SSDs, making there use redundant.


