Firefox and Opera crashes a lot without virtual memory. So I decided to finally, after many months of crashes, to re-enable the page file but this time very small 512 MB.
I did notice a faster operation of Opera and Firefox. I am not yet sure if this is because I shutdown and re-ran all applications, but I think I have another possible explanation. I notice the windows kernel likes to dump itself to the pagefile. About 267 MB. My working hypothesis is that throwing away un-used/garbage/data pages into the disk/pagefile clears up some memory and makes the memory arrangement more compact. Basically this compactness leads to better caching effects in L3, L2, L1 cache because of less cache index/way conflicts. Just an hypothesis but if true this would be funny. The general mantra to fast computations seems to be: 1. Keep it compact. 2. Keep it linear/serial. So there could be something to it, to keep at least a minimal page file. Windows 7 seems to like 400 MB at minimum. I set it to 512 MB. Windows 11 seems to like 200 MB at minimum. I set it to 256 MB in virtual machine (If I remember correctly). Too large page file is bad and will lead to too much swapping and disk waiting time. Bye for now, Skybuck. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/46f2aadb-d054-4c30-971f-7b8b84f8ed8an%40googlegroups.com.
