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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (3580)	11/16/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

After rebooting, my max available virtual memory remains essentially unchanged (a few k less), so I have to conclude that NT is in fact including most of physical memory plus the swap file. For grins, I'm going to up the min swap space by 32k and reboot (I run out of memory occasionally anyhow <g>).

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (3580)	11/16/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

After rebooting the max increased by the size of the min swap file increase, which doesn't surprise me. However, NT is claiming, as I read it, that it can effectively produce a virtual address space of swap file plus physical memory minus (in my case) about 10 megs, and it can do that with 23 megs of disk cache and (at the moment) 2 megs of nonpaged kernel space. Despite the fact that I don't believe NT can do it <g>, it looks like you and Sean were right and I was completely wrong about the way the max virtual memory is computed. BTW, before the first reboot, I had about 18 megs of nonpaged kernel space, meaning at that time NT's claim of delivering 185mb of virtual memory with 128mb of swap space and 64mb real memory leaves the kernel sucking 7 megs of virtual unpaged air if all that claimable virtual memory gets allocated (196-185-18= -7), not to mention disk cache, not to mention SOME overhead, which seems to be about 10mb. A VERY impressive paging algorithm, to say the least. I wonder if I could get NT to manage my stocks ... Uh, no, come to think of it, I already have a financial manager that can't add <ggg>.