[OT] virtual memory

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Ruatha:

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:

No page file can cause problems. Some apps are written to use the page file for some data. This was done to free up system ram back in the day, but it still populates some code. Seti is an app that pages by default. IMHO 128megs is a ball park lower limit.

Still, if you don't use proggies that needs VM it's better to have none, as it then won't access the HD all the time.

All things ram are done in 32’s, 32-64-128-256-512-1024. Try to work the page file size in the same increments. It eases the addressing load on the CPU.

This I seriously question!
What should be the reason for the CPU to have "easier adress load" with 33554432 Bytes (32M) or 32M-some (ex 30M)?
Every adress between the 24 and the 32M range uses the same adress length (actually, above 16M it uses the same registers IIRC).
And a modern PC is made for large adress lenghts, so it should make no significant change to the internal workload for the computer what size the page file is, the only difference is in the drive handling. (And as I've stated far below in fragmantazion, aka also drive issues)
Right?
Enlighten me.

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32 bit memory buss.