Comments on: Force Kernel Drivers and System Code to Stay Loaded in Memory to Boost Speed with DisablePagingExecutive Tweak

By: Jaewon Lee

Jaewon Lee — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:56:45 +0000

This tweak is wonderful especially for a PC that uses very slow HD like SSD.
I’m on a netbook with 16G SSD and 2G RAM. Paging on the SSD is very terrible.
So, non-paging shows the dramatic performace enhancement.

However, this article omitted something.
Non-paging would be effective only when ‘PagingFiles’ registry key in the same branch has empty.

If PagingFiles is specified, this tweak is not working even though DisablePagingExecutive is set to 1.

has empty.

This key resides in

By: Cristiano

Cristiano — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:35:49 +0000

I have Windows XP SP2 and 3GB of RAM. I disabled paging one year ago… and the system is BETTER! All datas are stored in RAM, so to swap from a program to another you don’t have to wait 30 seconds (if you’re lucky), but only 2-3 seconds. If you need to reboot your system only once every 3 days (or more), you will see a lot of improvements! The third day the system is like the first (based on the speed, but the amount of memory used is more)! Because OS doesn’t write old datas to HD and if you try to read them, you need a lot of time. To have a fast computer, try to buy a LOT of RAM and disable paging file… 4 GB of RAM (DDR2) costs less than 60 euros! Once you try, you know what I’m saying!

By: Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:11:14 +0000

Under most normal circumstances this registry setting will do nothing if memory is adequate. It prevents Windows from paging out a portion of the kernel. But Windows will try very hard to keep this im memory anyway.

This registry setting is in most cases a solution to a non existant problem.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

By: Dale Hartka

Dale Hartka — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:55:07 +0000

I have 3 gb memory on XP and the peak commit charge is 1.1 gb, yet it is still swapping. Talk about a stupid operating system! And Larry @ MS is telling me I can’t turn off the swapping – give me a break. Why not give us some info so we can set the memory parameters so XP doesn’t need to swap.
Dale Hartka
Melandale, Inc.

By: Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:14:00 +0000

Modifying basic memory settings as described here is strongly discouraged. The default settings will be optimum in the vast majority of cases. In very unusual cases it may be beneficial to modify them but this should ONLY be done by someone who completely understands what they do. The information provided here is not only inadequate, much of it is incorrect. Much of the information found on the internet regarding these settings is wrong.

Uninformed meddling in system settings is far more likely to impair performance than improve it. It can also cause severe problems. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:42:36 +0000

I just performed these 3 changes as directed and do not see a difference…

My Kernel total is hovering around 65472.. (interestingly.. about 64 x 1024)
and Paged is around 38340
Nonpaged is around 27128..

I’m going to 0 out the poolsize and poolquota and reboot again to see if that helps. I have 2G of memory on a Solo processor.. (basically just a defunct Intel marketing name for a non-duo..)

Roger

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:16:13 +0000

This tweak makes sense. I’m on XP Pro XP3 with 2G of RAM and just gave this a try.

Other than observing performance, how can I tell that it is working? If I track the use of Kernel Memory (via Task Manager) both before and after the change, I would have expected to see the portion of Kernel Memory that is Paged decrease substantially (I originally thought it would go to 0). But instead, it has not changed. Roughly as follows

Total: 125,000
Paged: 85,000
Nonpaged: 40,000

What should I be looking for?

Thanks!

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By: sunshine

sunshine — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:43:01 +0000

Anybody tried this yet? I have been having video driver stopped responding issues, probably due an aging hard drive, so this is very tempting. I have an XP Pro box running on 1 Gb RAM, what say?

Regards,
MFK.