My system has 2G of RAM and typically I’m using half, according to Task Manager. “Available Physical Memory” is usually around 1G.
But say I leave an app open, e.g Visual Studio or Adobe Flash CS4 (developer), and go away for awhile, say to eat lunch. When I return and try to do anything in the app I have to wait around while the disk chatters loading it all back in from Virtual Memory.
I can see it in Task Manager – when I leave, Visual Studio might be 90M/124M physical/virtual. When I come back it’s 20M/128M, and as soon as I click on something in VS it slowly goes back 90M/124M.
But with a gig of free RAM why does XP page it out??!! (and how can I stop it?)
