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What is PF usage in the task manager in XP? Is it the about of RAM its using?
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PF usage in task manager?
- Thread starter Camacho111
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It has to do with your virtual memory it's using. Your actual Ram usage is the top right quadrant.
It has nothing to do with actual memory usage.
It has nothing to do with actual memory usage.
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It is the useage of the page file. The page file is a section of hard disk space allocated by the OS to be managed like system memory. When the physical memory is full and/or there are things in memory that aren't used much, these are paged out to the page file on the HD. Access to the page file is far slower than system ram, so you don't want to use too much of it if you don't have too. On the other hand, it's better than the hard lock that would result from running out of RAM. So PF useage would be the part of the currently allocated PF that is in use.Camacho111 said:
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Bingo
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