Memory structure

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Hello,

What is meant by the term 'paging file' when addressing memory usage.?

Example

dwTotalPageFile:
Indicates the total number of bytes that can be stored in the paging file

dwAvailPageFile
Indicates the number of bytes available in the paging file.


I'm trying to use the api's call 'GlobalMemoryStatus', but I'm not sure what part these members play

Thanks for the help

Hmm

[jim mcnamara]

Virtual memory systems have more memory available to a process than exists in the hardware. Some allocated memory is sent to disk because it is not being used and the OS thinks more free physical memory is needed. The place on disk where the 'extra' memory is stored is a page file - so called becasue it stores pages of memory.

[hmm]

Thank you Jim

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