Re: Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows

Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 10:25:37 (NZST)

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>Does this hold true in systems that have virtual memory disabled? (after
>putting enough physical memory in first, of course.) Does any paging happen
>then? I don't see any disk activity, but have not tested for patterns yet.
 
Win3.1 doesn't page, but will crash if it runs out of physical memory with no
VM backing it. To solve this, create a RAM drive with a small pagefile (1MB or
so) on it.
 
Peter.
 

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