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Along the same line, I've never understood Windows' propensity to swap out the kernel. I might have tons of free memory and half my kernel is swapped out. In
by prewett 15y ago
Along the same line, I've never understood Windows' propensity to swap out the kernel. I might have tons of free memory and half my kernel is swapped out. In fact, I've never figured out how to get it not swapped out, no matter how much memory I put in.
- jstclair 15y agoYou could try this (from an elevated command-prompt), but the general consensus is that it has a small (if any) effect: reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" -v DisablePagingExecutive -d 0x0 -t REG_DWORD -f Disable it with: reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" -v DisablePagingExecutive -d 0x1 -t REG_DWORD -f More discussion here: http://serverfault.com/questions/12150/does-the-disablepagingexecutive-registry-change-have-any-actual-effect http://serverfault.com/questions/12150/does-the-disablepagin... The easiest way (if you have enough memory) is just disable the paging file.
- gospelwut 15y agoSince we're talking about optimization, if you're on a SSD you should disable prefetching--which is essentially a technique for older (read: shittier) computers.