Memory usage beyond 32Bit limitations of Windows OS

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I do understand it, but it is a fact that most X86 drivers aren't programmed for the 36 bit address size, which would still cause irrational behaviour. There is no reason for Microsoft to disable the feature deliberately, the X64 and X86 editions of the latest versions of Windows are covered by the same license, IE Microsoft don't make extra money from them, and as all modern CPU's now ship with X64 support there is no reason for the kind of collusion some people appear to be claiming.

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... Oh and do you consider it to be a reasonable use of your system resources that this pointless hack is actually consuming 70% of your CPU time? Use an X64 OS and all of your memory becomes available for normal use, with 0% consumption of your CPU time.

Whether it works is irrelevant. It is a gross waste of hardware, it will hamper performance, and it will provide no real performance benefit.

That program worked at approx 77% faster then HDD testing (doesn't mean the whole system will use 70% CPU!) The benchmarking software's logging made it go to that CPU usage.

I tested again by copying file to RamDisk + Process Explorer (TeraCopy used) With TeraCopy's full gutt usage (memory caching etc) it reached to 7% MAX and Windows when occasionally uses pagefile, it would do it in almost same way. You can expect average 2 to 3% on normal communication

I will further test the pagefile's CPU usage with full desktop screenshot :)

But during this time, you should not make false statements about such CPU usage without actually testing it. That benchmarking software showed that CPU usage at what speed? did you miss that? my hard disk (all 3 of them) showed MAX 45MB and that thing is 3000MB/s!

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Well of course memory is faster than a hard disk, but that is beyond the point, Paging files are designed to be written to a hard disk for a very specific reason, they should not be in memory. What part of that is it that you seem to have so much trouble understanding?

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Well of course memory is faster than a hard disk, but that is beyond the point, Paging files are designed to be written to a hard disk for a very specific reason, they should not be in memory. What part of that is it that you seem to have so much trouble understanding?

There is NO RULE it has to be on Hard Disk Drive! In future, we will have SSD (Solid State Drives) so you will also tell those people that they should NOT put pagefiles on their SSDs?

Be reasonable, its a work around to use more memory (not a 100% solution or replacement for 64bit) still, you want to continue and make it personal (like that guy said, 32Bit surely RAPED your wife!)

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