>can you figure out WTH is being swapped?...Seems the this slack-jawed
>desktop OS wants to swap out no matter how much memory you give it.
Len,
I know this one has been irking you, so here goes: this is unlikely to
be Microsoft's fault, but rather a programming choice made by
Ipswitch. Win32's CreateFileMapping allows you to create a
memory-mapped file (MMF) which is mirrored in ("backed by") the
system's swap file. You can navigate MMFs without using the file I/O
API, which means access is much faster, but the swapfile is indeed
always in use. The quicker MMF modifications can be flushed to disk
(i.e. the more contiguous swapfile space you have), the faster the
system will respond. MMFs are more often used for sharing data between
processes, but also would be helpful in managing HTTP state across
sessions. Of course, there would also be plain-old memory heaps being
used in lots of other places around the app--thus Imail in general
benefits from more physical RAM--but MMFs only benefit from swap
space.
You seemed to like my notes on Registry capacity a long time ago, so
here's another one for your MS file.
Sandy
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