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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 9230256" data-attributes="member: 828"><p>OS doesn't wait till you run out of physical RAM to start using the pagefile or swap file. it uses it even when there are several gigabytes of physical memory is still available. paging is NOT just used for the purpose of running more programs than what physical memory allows. it also helps to prevent WASTAGE of physical memory due to fragmentation. (causes of memory fragmentation and file system fragmentation are similar, but results are different. memory fragmentation lowers the amount of USABLE physical memory for programs, file system fragmentation LOWERS THE FILE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE because more seeks are required to read data which is not contiguous.)</p></blockquote><p></p>

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