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Subject: Re: is the

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 05:06:59 07/24/98

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On July 23, 1998 at 19:39:40, Roberto Waldteufel wrote:

>the graphics overhead of Windows. When there are no other applications open, it
>seems strange to me that Windows does not automatically allocate RAM instead of
>slow-access disc space. I could understand it if I were multitasking other

No, you missed the point.

Windows does not allocate RAM. It allocates memory space. It probably does some
work to make sure that a lot of the memory allocated is already in RAM, but when
you allocate 40MB and you only have 64MB RAM, that's a very hard thing to do.
That's why you see so much swapping.

Cheers,
Tom



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