Weird pagefile use??


  1. Posts : 540
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    Weird pagefile use??


    ok guys/gals here one for you,

    I'm moving a mass(464GB) of files over to a new HDD using good old copy n paste. Now here is whats weird, I have 16GB of ram but the system is using my (max) 2GB pagefile to complete this action?

    As I'm typing it is only using my (min) 800MB pagefile space, 85% of it to be exact. But why?
    Is it slowing anything by doing it this way?
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  2. whs
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    How do you figure that your pagefile is used at all. Your black picture is unreadable.
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  3. Posts : 540
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
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    I'll try to fix that pic later(on phone app right now)
    I say it's being used because "System Monitor"(see pic) shows it is being used.
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  4. Posts : 5,092
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    Using Explorer to copy in such an instance is about as inefficient as it gets. Use a command line copy program to avoid the overhead. RichCopy, RoboCopy etc..
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  5. Posts : 540
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    MilesAhead said:
    Using Explorer to copy in such an instance is about as inefficient as it gets. Use a command line copy program to avoid the overhead. RichCopy, RoboCopy etc..
    Thanks for the heads up, I'll check those out.
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  6. whs
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    jeepmann4x4 said:
    I'll try to fix that pic later(on phone app right now)
    I say it's being used because "System Monitor"(see pic) shows it is being used.
    This is no good proof of usage. They are probably counting the amount of hard faults. But most of those hard faults are phony. Some programs use superfetch to place their stuff into RAM. That produces a hard fault but it actually never goes to the pagefile - goes directly to RAM if there is 'available' RAM (which is probably always the case with 12GBs) - check that in Resource Monitor > Memory tab.
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