On 13/10/2011 12:47 AM, Darren New wrote:

> Same thing can happen if you have a whole ton of data paged out when you
> terminate the application, as AFAICT both Windows and Linux will happily
> page everything back in as it terminates the job.

What I can't figure out is why no matter how many billion bytes of 
physical RAM you have, Windows seems to swap stuff out to disk, even if 
it isn't short of physical memory. Like, if you start up Windows, open a 
few applications, walk away, and come back four hours later, as soon as 
you touch anything, it starts desperately paging all the data back into 
memory.

Um, why did it page it *out* in the first place?! I thought it was only 
supposed to swap stuff out if the space was needed for something else?

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