Here is one for you. I have been running with 4GB ram and NO page file for a few years. I just upgraded to Vista x64 Ultimate last week.
I have disabled paging appropriately for all drives. Yes, I know how to do this from the advanced/performance/virtual memory dialog.
Also, I am not using ReadyBoost.
I have also confirmed that there is no hidden pagegile.sys on any drive, just to be sure. And I have rebooted several times over the last week in normal usage.
Here is the rub … When I bring up Task Manager, it sill shows usage for the Page File in the System groupbox. For instance, right now it shows 1093M/3452M, varying as I go.
Under the physical memory groupbox, I show 3.5GB total, 0.5GB cached and 2GB free.
Why would this be the case? Have any of you seen the same behavior? I would expect that with no page file, I would see 0M/0M in the task manager.
thanks.
