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I wonder if this is some cross-pollination legacy of Windows Phone. On such a device, background processes are still necessary, memory is a much tighter constr
by Majromax 3y ago
I wonder if this is some cross-pollination legacy of Windows Phone. On such a device, background processes are still necessary, memory is a much tighter constraint, and enough pages might be mapped directly from device flash for auto-eviction to make sense.
- toast0 3y agoAs a Windows Phone fan, the timing doesn't quite match up. They reported this happens as far back as Windows 7, but Windows Phone 7 was based on Windows CE; WP 8 was NT based, I would have expected cross-pollination to start showing up in Windows 8.
- sznio 3y agoI remember using some software to increase the pagefile on my Windows Phone. Multitasking worked so much better after that. Apps loaded faster since it would just take the image of an app suspended in the pagefile rather than starting it over.