force application to stay in ram and not page out

MSFN Forum: force application to stay in ram and not page out - MSFN Forum

Page 1 of 1

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

force application to stay in ram and not page out Rate Topic:

#1 BigDaddy

Senior Member

Group: Members
Posts: 532
Joined: 04-November 03

Posted 27 December 2008 - 01:40 PM

Hello!

On my server which is running Win2003 with 512MB ram I would like to set so that Firefox would not get swapped like you can do it with the kernel files(disable paging executive). So that after 4days when I will re-connect to the server via RDP and maximize Firefox I will not have to wait for the data to be read from the page file.

And the task manager says that about 300MB of ram is still free

This post has been edited by BigDaddy: 27 December 2008 - 01:49 PM

#2 cluberti

Gustatus similis pullus

Group: Supervisor
Posts: 10,936
Joined: 09-September 01
OS:Windows 7 x64
Country:

Posted 31 December 2008 - 01:05 PM

Not possible unless you have control over the code - there are ways to make sure memory you allocate are not swapped out, but if you didn't write the app there's no way for you, as a user, to control the memory manager of Windows without completely disabling the swap file.