But, like in your case, there may be the need to increase the Page File size and also get in the habit of defragmenting the hard drive periodically (every 6 months for example, basic computer maintenance). The best approach that Micrososft recommends is to let MS Windows handle the size automatically. So all that free space becomes fragmented too. But since the swap area in MS Windows is based on available free space, it is possible that your hard drive gets fragmented over time.
That being the case, my whole point is that you're not allowed to mess around with the pagefile.sys. While the swap area in operating systems such as Linux and other Unix-like OS's is strictly a dedicated partition on a hard drive, in MS Windows the paging file uses available free space on that hard drive it is normally managed by the operating system automatically. Since MS Windows use a file to handle how the virtual memory allocation is read/written from the current hard drive (where the OS is installed), when most people talk about the swap area to referr to virtual memory they're actually referring to the Page File or paging file ( pagefile.sys). One area that you can work around with when you get the "out of memory errors" is to increase the "swap" file. It will expect to get its data from the virtual memory addresses provided by the OS (and the hardware device drivers working together with the OS). It also handles the translation between physycal to virtual memory paging.Īpplications such as Acrobat won't care about physical addresses and how to look for it to get the data it requests at any given time.
Newer versions of MS Windows employ the full use of the operating system to read/write instructions to a memory page in the physical memory but also caches them to millions of virtual memory addressing allocations.
I don't think MS Windows handles the physical addressing space anymore as it used be two decades ago. I think you may be confusing the differences between virtual memory addressing space and how the physical RAM works.
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