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| Aug 28, 2011 at 22:12 | comment | added | David Schwartz | If this answer were correct, then a Windows system with no page files configured couldn't provide any virtual memory support. But this is obviously wrong. Such a system could still, for example, map files into process address space in excess of physical RAM, which is an example of virtual memory. | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 19:34 | comment | added | Molly7244 | "Windows does NOT defrag this part of your hard drive." simply nuke pagefile.sys, reboot, defrag the disk and re-enable paging, voilá, a fresh and contigeous pagefile! however, Sysinternals' PageDefrag does a better job as it will also place the pagefile at the beginning of the drive/partition for better performance. | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 19:31 | comment | added | Anthony Giorgio | That's not completely true - modern memory managers virtualize ALL the system memory. This is what allows for process separation - each process can only touch its own memory. The memory manager is responsible for mapping these virtual pages to the real storage, and optionally to a fixed disk. | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 19:20 | history | answered | Anarkie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |