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["Alex Jeppesen" <jailbait@xxxxxxxxx>]

I dont think vitual memory is needed nearly as much as it was 2 or 3 years
ago. I recently built my own computer and got 1 gig of DDR ram for 85$ from
crucial, cheap for that much. Now I was expecting to beable to disable the
vitual memory in windows xp/2k to speed things up. I was wrong, its
hardcoded in the kernel to always use vitual memory. On a fresh reboot
windows has 60megs of swap, this is redicuolus. RAM prices get cheaper and
cheaper, soon 1 gig of ram will be the norm. Even the biggest programs will
not use this memory, and if they do get 2 gigs of ram. virtual memory is
hard to write and slows even the fastes computer reading and writing from
the HD. Is it really worth the effort? I love the fact after 1 week of
continous use, AtheOS never slows down and is very responsive, not the same
for win2k/xp even with a 1.4 gig athon 1 gig ram and raid 0.

Kurt you know much more than I and I'd love to get your oppinon on this
subject.