What is "virtual memory paging file"?
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What The Meaning Of Virtual Memory.\nMaybe Your "RAM" Is (512) And You Try\nTo Open More Than One Page At The Same \nTime...Surely Your "RAM" Can't Handle It\nSo You Have To Increase The Number Of Virtual\nMemory More Than (3500MB) That's Mean The\n_________________________________________\nRight Click On "My Computer" Select "Properties"\nNew Wizard Will Open Select "Advanced" Then\nPress "Setting" On The "Performance Box"\nNew Wizard Will Open Select "Advanced" Then\nIn The Virtual Memory Box Select "Change"\nPut The Initial Size = (1500)\nMaximum Size = (3500).\n\nVirutal Memory Use The Hard Disk As "RAM"\nTo Locate More Loaded Pages Or Program.
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physical memory is the hardware (RAM) installed in a computer, whereas virtual memory is when the computer runs out of physical memory and starts using the hard drive to store data.
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(m)\n\n technique for increasing the memory space available by moving infrequently-used parts of a program's working memory from {RAM} to a secondary storage medium, usually disk.  The unit of transfer is called a page. A {memory management unit} (MMU) monitors accesses to memory and splits each address into a page number (the most significant bits) and an offset within that page (the lower bits).  It then looks up the page number in its page table. The page may be marked as paged in or paged out.  If it is paged in then the memory access can proceed after translating the {virtual address} to a {physical address}.  If the requested page is paged out then space must be made for it by paging out some other page, i.e. copying it to disk.  The requested page is then located on the area of the disk allocated for "{swap space}" and is read back into {RAM}.  The page table is updated to indicate that the page is paged in and its physical address recorded. The MMU also records whether a page has been modified since it was last paged in.  If it has not been modified then there is no need to copy it back to disk and the space can be reused immediately. Paging allows the total memory requirements of all running tasks (possibly just one) to exceed the amount of {physical memory}, whereas {swapping} simply allows multiple processes to run concurrently, so long as each process on its own fits within {physical memory}. (1996-11-22)
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*****UPDATE: i would set min to 1024MB and Max to 1024MB this is the recommend setting by performance users. 2X the size of your ram. by using the system controlled setting windows has the ability to expand your paging file from 768 to 1024 if necessary. i dont think u will mind losing 256MB of hard drive space to have a static 1024MB or 1GB to avoid the disk thrashing of the page file being expanded and contracted at windows discretion.. so set it 1024 min and 1024 max for best performance.***** depends how much ram and hard disk space u have. there is no benefit to a huge page file. i have 1 gig of ram and set it to  1536MB which is 1.5X my ram. if u have less than a gig i would suggest setting it to 2X the size of your ram. if you have a low amount of ram like 256MB i would just keep the option "system managed size" otherwise i use a custom size to avoid the size being changed. if u have 512MB+ just set a custom size min and max the same value.
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VIrtual memory is when windows uses a small portion of your hard drive as "RAM." The widely-accepted setting of virtual memory is to have 1.5 x RAM, so if you have 512MB of RAM you set your virtual memory to ~768MB. Setting 100MB on one drive and 200MB on another would probably slow down performance a tad, since windows would need to read/write from two drives rather than just one.\n\nJust apply the 1.5 x RAM and set that virtual memory size onto a single drive. Oh, and cranking up your virtual memory setting to something like 5 x RAM probably won't yield any performance increase.
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I assume you mean pagefile or swapfile usage. This is an area of the hardrive that is used by the operating system like RAM. I prevents you just using all your RAM and then having to stop a program and ensures that currently running programs can access RAM.\nTheres a lot more to it than this though.
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Where are you seeing this?  In task manager?  IT is probably a backdoor program or spy ware using up processing time within the memory.
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Virtual memory is a part of your hard drive that your OS fixes to load the programs while running. The physical memory or the RAM may not be sufficient to accomodate all the running programs, in that case a part of hard disk is allocated to the  program so that when ever that part is required to be executed  can be loaded into RAM.\n\nIf you are using Windows XP:\nAdvanced -> Performance -> Settings -> Advanced -> Virtual Memory -> Change
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This is your page file, it's used by Windows to use your hard drive list extra RAM memory.  It's also known as virtual memory.  You probably can't delete this because it's being used by the system.  You wouldn't want to adjust the size of this either because it's probably set correctly now.  If you have a second hard drive, you may want to use it.  Settings are at: Right click on my computer, properties, advanced tab, performance settings, advanced tab, change.\n\nBefore changing anything here, research about Windows XP page files on the internet first.
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You can also increase your page file. A page file is empty space on your hard drive that your system will use as extra memory. You can try to increase this by RIGHT-clicking on the My Computer icon, go to properties. Click on Advanced. Click Settings under performance.\nAgain, click the advanced Tab.\nNear the bottom, it should say Virtual memory. Click the Change button.\n\nMost systems will have system managed as default. If your "Currently Allocated" is near the recommended. I suggest entering a custom value. Depending on your system, 512-1024 is very sufficient. However...if your system starts to lag, you might want to play with it a lil. Hope this helps.
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This is for Windows XP, might work on others ... not sure\n\nOpen System in Control Panel.\n \nOn the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.\n \nOn the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change. \n\nUnder Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change. \n\nUnder Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, and type a new paging file size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.\n \nIf you decrease the size of either the initial or maximum page file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. Increases typically do not require a restart.
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No doubt... is a temporal file. No idea of what program must be using it, though. You can delete it, send it to the recycle bin and keep it there for a while. If you don't have problems with any program then it is not needed (since it was a temporal from the beggining) and you can empty your recycle bin...\n\n(All of this if you're using Microsoft Windows, of course)
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Your hard drive is what holds all the content on your computer.  When you open a file or run a program, that program is loaded into your RAM for quicker access by your computers processor and bus system.  When you're using a lot of programs at once (multi-tasking) and the amount of free (or available) RAM is low, your computer accesses a part of your hard drive called the paging file or page file, which is also referred to as virtual memory.  You can change the available amount of virtual memory by accessing your system properties.  If you don't know what you're doing, I don't recommend this.  \n\nIn order to get a cheap performance boost, you can purchase additional RAM for your system, which comes in the form of a small acrylic stick with memory modules on it.  Before purchasing this, you will need to know what type and speed of RAM your system uses.  For example, my computer used PC 3200 (400MHz) DDR (Dual [Double] Data Rate) DIMM (Dual Inline Memory Module) RAM.  (Slow compared to new technologies, but works for what I use if for - aside from the fact that I tightly tweak my system.  However, my parents' computer is older and uses PC 100/66 SIMM (Single "")RAM.\n\nThere are other factors to search for once you find the type you need.  This included latency and SPD (Serial Presence Detect) timings.  These are the major factors contributing to the performance of your system's RAM.  The lower the numbers, the better.  I won't go into detail because I've rambled enough, but if you travel to your local computer store (CompUSA, BestBuy, or other privately owned retailer) they should be able to give you this information.  Hope this helps.
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Virtual memory is used when the computer runs out of physical memory (RAM). You should never decrease this below a certain level. However, setting this above the recommended setting is wasteful. On an average computer, a 1gb swap file (what is used for virtual memory) is considered to be the norm. Ideally, however, your operating system will adjust the swap file for you and you don't have to worry about it (as Windows does). Basically having too little is very very bad.
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First, it does NOT damage your computer.\n\nSecond, memory dump is basically a tool that takes a snapshot of the entire content of your memory, and dumps all that into a single file. Say you have 1 gigabyte of physical memory and 1.5 gigabyte of virtual memory, then a "full memory dump" will be 2.5 gigabyte in size, but Windows usually just do a partial dump of the program that generated the problem. Theoretically, if the problem is serious enough, the programmers can take that dump and analyze that, plus other info, to trace the cause of the problem.\n\nBasically, the program you ran somehow accessed some memory that does NOT belong to it. This could caused by many different things, from bad programming to malicious intent and everything in between. The net result is the operating system decided that it can no longer run safely, thus, it dumped the important stuff to a file, then restart the machine.
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In paging, pages of a size keep moving in and out of the memory according to demand( if you are using demand paging)... But the user view of a memory is hardly like that(progrms divided into pages... few people will buy that). So we use paging with segmentation which allows us to employ the view we have had of memory... of it being segmented in code,global variables,parameters etc. So a page eventually does not belong to a process but a segment of a process... one more advantage is that we can further exploit the locality of reference property of programs.
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It's hard to say for certain.  I'd guess one or more of four things, beginning with the most likely: the page file is too small, the hard drive badly needs to be defragged (and probably has a lot of junk on it), the hard drive is going bad, the onboard drive controller is going bad.\n\nTry increasing the size of the paging file first.  Then try a drive cleaning utility (the kind that gets rid of junk files for you), then defrag the drive.  If not then then try a new hard drive.  If not that, then that PC needs a new motherboard.\n\nThose are my best guesses.