Virtual Memory Partition

[nuclear500]

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nuclear500,

Were you sharing the BDOD issue as an anecdote or as reasoning for using virtual memory? If it's the latter case, I'd say that reasoning isn't valid since the performance gain you're going to get would seem to greatly outweigh the inconvenience of getting a memory dump when you BSOD'd.

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then a nagging blue screen of death caused the need to get a memory dump file analyzed and you can't do that without a pagefile.

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I had no idea what was causing the BSOD and being techie-geek I wanted to know. I'm not one to just reformat at the slightest problem.

It just became a non-issue having it. Running without it was more of an experiment in proof then a specific reason. Todays hard drives can cope with bouncing around to different locations much easier. I never did any performance logging to determine the improvement, but I never noticed one way or the other.