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To: Scumbria who wrote (131471)	4/2/2001 3:15:12 AM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Scumbria, You wrote "Why doesn't Microsoft ship that option as standard? The OS is unusable without it." Yes, it is quite annoying isn't it! The reason it isn't standard is that this little bug only shows up when there are very large amounts of RAM installed. What happens is that Windows goes crazy trying to disk cache more files than fit in memory, so Windows starts using virtual memory(!!!!) to cache the files. Needless to say, using virtual memory to cache files is insanity and is clearly an algorithm bug. Microsoft shows no interest in fixing it. It was been present since day 1 of Windows95 and is still here all the way through Windows ME. I've personally seen Windows 95/98 pointlessly caching hundreds of megabytes of files, totally destroying system performance. Mike

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