Comment Can't hibernate (Score 5, Interesting) 983
Windows makes me CRAZY about this. the OS is internally configured to use an LRU algorithm to aggressively page.
("Technical bastards" who question my use of paging and swap interchangeably in this post can send their flames to
What I found when disabling paging on an XP pro system with 2GB RAM is that the system performance is explosively faster without the disk IO.
Even an *idle* XP pro system swaps - explaining the time it takes for the system to be responsive to your request to maximize a window you have not used in a while.
I was thrilled to have a rocket-fast system again - until I tried to hibernate my laptop. Note that the hibernation file is unrelated to the swap/paging space.
The machine consistently would blue screen when trying to hibernate if swap/paging was disabled. Enabling swap enabled the hibernation function again. Since reboots take *FOREVER* to reload all the crap that XP needs on an enterprise-connected system - systems mangement, anti-virus agent, software distribution tool, and the required ram-defragger which allows XP to "stand by" when you've got more than 1GB of RAM, plus IM, etc
I reboot as infrequently as possible and consider "stand by" and "hibernate" required functions. As a result, I live with XP and paging enabled, and tolerate the blasted system "unpaging" apps that have been idle a short time.
Poo!