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AngJinhang

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I have a PC that is about 6-year-old, running windows xp with only 512mb of ram (10mb used as video memory). So, I increased my Pagefile for performance, but the problem is: every time I download some large files (apple software update, maplestory, etc), my computer ran out of Pagefile after downloading for hours, but the ram is still 60% free. When this happens, the download cannot go on-and cannot pause. What should I do? Free up the Pagefile? Or have more ram or Pagefile?
 
I am not an expert on pagefile, but I can help you a bit. Go to your download options on your browser and make sure they are not pointing to pagefile. If you are using IE, go to Opera, Chrome, or FF and set the download location manually and try your download again. Should fix your problem.
 
I mean iTunes, that is pretty lagging. Now my Pagefile is about half full but I have 5 hours remaining...what is that ram doing? 325mb free but do not use it?
I admit I am not a real expert in Pagefile, but sadly iTunes don't offers me to pause...
 
Itunes should not be downloading to pagefile in the first place. It downloads strait to HDD in most cases.

As for what the RAM is doing, it is doing its job. Pagefile is there to make sure you do not run out of RAM.
 
Oh, thats it! The page file does not rise 1mb if I download 1mb, and the CPU is using more than I thought! So I just leave it there and I never had to worry about Pagefile getting full, but rising 1mb every time I download 5-10mb...can someone tell me why?

Thanks, I really feel relieved now.
 
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wolfeking said:
Itunes should not be downloading to pagefile in the first place. It downloads strait to HDD in most cases.

As for what the RAM is doing, it is doing its job. Pagefile is there to make sure you do not run out of RAM.
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The page file will (should) only be used if there is no free RAM left. It is VRAM, it acts the same as memory but being a section of the hard drive, is much slower than RAM, hence why your system gets slower when you run out of memory, start paging or, if you have very little RAM and a lot of data being moved about, disk thrashing. It doesn't stop you from running out of RAM, it is a very slow safety barrier so your system doesn't completely run out of memory


@OP - Open task manager (ctrl + alt + delete), go to the performance tab and open Itunes. The graph labelled Physical Memory (I believe, I do not have an XP system at hand), doe sit shoot up to/near 100%?


More RAM will definitely help, even if you just throw another 512MB in there.
 
forgive my misunderstanding. I was just going off the fact that every system I have ever had has always dumped to swap far before it runs out of memory. Right now I am running 500ish MB of RAM used and just a hair over 300MB on swap. This is with 4Gb installed and only running File browser, conky, FF, and system monitor.
 
But I still maintain (unless my understanding is completely wrong of all of computer) that itunes should not be downloading to pagefile at all. It should (iirc) go to something like /users/*usernamehere*/music/itunes or something of the like, yes?
 
i think wolfe is right about the download not going to page file, but something somewhere is telling it to?? i made a new partition in my hd for pagefile.and
tripled what it was asking for, but i did have to uncheck use all hdd for pagefile,so now it's dedicated to that partition and even if i wanted to it is maked as sys.reserved and no files can go to it
,and also when i look at it it says it's full, it's not but by being sys. reserved it shows as full all the time
 
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Applications that make use of the pagefile on their own is really just a myth. The pagefile is only used internally by the kernel.
 
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