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Page File Usage

I run a script which does text manipulation on the files system. The script runs on text files ( .h, .cpp ). As the script runs i see that the PF usage increases up until it reaches the amount of VM allocated for the page file. Is there a way to…
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how to work with variables in files instead of memory in c#(like pagefile)

I have written a program that I have to save large data in the variables. how can I use files instead of memory? like virtual memory (page file)
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Override Windows XP paging / cache eviction policy

Because of corporate reasons we are limited to 32-bit XP machines. Ramdrive (PAE) provides a nice alternative to using a bit more memory, but the paging file set on the ramdrive is almost not used and it never grows. I've tried some of the options…
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Pagefile error with error code "Set-WmiInstance : Value out of range"

I am trying to set pagefile size for C and D drive with the following code. But there is an odd issue with this. Sometimes the code will work perfectly. Sometimes it will throw an error saying Set-WmiInstance : Value out of range for both drives.…
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Where is the pathname of the file after mmap is called?

char *p = (char*) mmap(...); ....; /* check if p is not -1 */ a = *p; While running the last statement, a page fault occurs. The fault handler in the kernel will allocate a page in the physical memory and copy 4K bytes from the file into that page,…
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Go lang compiler causes (unknown) error with ldflags

I'm trying to compile Syncthing for WD My Cloud Ex2. It's an arm architecture and it works with 64kb pagefile, so while compiling, there must be a flag ("-R 65536"). When compiling I get the following error c:\src\github.com\syncthing\syncthing>go…
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(Average)Pages/sec = 1.084,12; An extremely high rate of paging active memory to disk is occurring. Your application may be memory-bound.

(Average)Pages/sec = 1.084,12; An extremely high rate of paging active memory to disk is occurring. Your application may be memory-bound. This is the warning Visual Studio 2013 gives me when I run the performance analysis tool. I found this…
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Does Linux have a page file?

I found at several places that Linux uses pages and a paging mechanism but I didn't find anywhere where this file is or how to configure it. All the information I found is about the Linux swap file / partition. There is a difference between paging…
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Can a 200GB or bigger SQL Server database load into a pagefile when not enough memory is available on the server?

Here's what we're trying to do. We will have a 200GB+ SQL Server database that needs to load into memory. Microsoft best practice is to have enough physical memory available on the server and then load the entire database into that. That means we…
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Memory mapped files that are backed up by the System page file

I am having a piece of software that is using MMF that is backed up by the system page file. The application uses MMF in order to cache large images. Write and read operations are happening at a very high frequency. Though I can clearly see the…
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what is the differnce between page file and index file in essbase?

what is the difference between .pag file and .ind file ? I know the page file contains actual data means data-blocks and cells and index file holds the pointer of data block i.e. available in page file. but is there any other difference ?regarding…
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Disabling swap (paging file) to ensure everything is really in memory

I have several applications that need real memory, and they consume a lot of it. One solution would be to have every piece of memory inside application LOCKED (VirtualLock) but it would require many hours to do right, since apps are in .NET. So, my…
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PowerShell: Querying pagefile info for 2008 server

I'm scripting a check for pagefile status utilizing PowerShell. On Windows 2000/2003 machines a user can choose between 3 pagefile options via the windows virtual Memory dialog: Custom Size System Managed Size No paging file I can successfully…
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How do I tell if two addresses are in the same page file?

What math is involved and how do I tell if two addresses are in the same 4 kilobyte page?
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Read/Write to/from PageFile

I use an embedded DB for two applications that one of them is Server and another one is client.The client side app. can send fetch data request to server side to retrieve data and show in a table (or sth else).Question is this: How may I save(write)…
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