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Disk Cache takes all memory when copying large files

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Posted 18 August 2002 - 11:46 AM

This is under Windows XP. I find that when I copy larger files and also running programs, all my memory is used on the disk cache and all programs are paged to disk. Anyone know of the fault and/or a workaround?
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Posted 18 August 2002 - 12:23 PM

I could be wrong, but I think thats the way NTs memory management is supposed to work. In 4 years of using NT I haven't noticed it do anything else. Of course, I haven't ran it in obscenely large amounts of RAM so that might have something to do with it...
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Posted 18 August 2002 - 04:12 PM

Cant you change that by right clicking my puter->properties, advanced tab, performance 'settings' button, then the advanced tab. (Memory Usage)

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Posted 18 August 2002 - 04:18 PM

Already tried that. BTW it defaults to programs over system cache.
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Posted 20 August 2002 - 10:19 AM

That seems to help a lot. Once I find out what the best settings for my amount of memory are, I should have it working the way I want it.

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