FreeDOS 1.2 - Hackdot

Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by icebraining on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:32AM (#13262583)

While a page file is definitively slower than RAM, it's not a given that simply using one will make the whole system slower. As long as the kernel only sends rarely used pages to the file, the slowdown in writing/reading them can be made up by having more RAM available for the filesystem cache.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by dom0 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:11AM (#13262668)

I don't know if this was improved in W8 or W10, but in W7 and before the paging algorithm in the NT kernel was definitely subpar, having a pagefile always reduced performance, because applications in the background would be swapped out even if plenty of RAM was available, so going back to an application meant that it was unresponsive until the kernel swapped it back in.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by iopq on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @01:21AM (#13268807)

Windows 7 actually pages once you use HALF of your RAM. That's crazy. It's starting to page after I use only 8 GB! 8 GB is free and it's paging!

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