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  1. May 28th, 2001, 03:09 PM #1
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    Question Memory structure

    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

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  2. May 29th, 2001, 10:25 AM #2
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    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.
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  3. May 29th, 2001, 05:37 PM #3
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    Thank you Jim



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