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I have 8GB of memory on my machine, running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I put my laptop to sleep and then woke it up. As it was coming back to life I noticed a lot of activity reads and writes from/to the pagefile.sys.

Task manager only showed 4GB of used memory, which left me with approx. 4GB free. Why would it be needing the page file and is there a way to prevent it from writing to the page file?

One way, I see is to disable the paging file, which should work as long as the 8GB of memory is sufficient for all work activities. However, when doing this I have run into the OS giving me occasional popups indicating that memory is low.

Elan
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Why would it be needing the page file

Windows aggressively puts unused elements of the kernel etc. out of the RAM in order to ahve as much free as possibl e when you start an application. SImple common sense -it assumes you will want the RAM or it coudl be used for examlpe as disc cache.

TomTom
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