Thanks.  For this one, I am only offering harddisk which I think the client
though wanting but would eventually choose to save for harddisk.

From earlier tests, I still can't conclude on if the 2MB VM a hard
imposition or not.

SM Ling

> I have to step in and point out that Virtual Memory is exactly that,
> Virtual Ram. There is no magic about it. So you absolutely can calculate
> your memory budget when the O/S and all apps are loaded, configure your
> system to have that much RAM (plus a bit!), then disable the pagefile
> completely.
>
> Creating a ram disk to host a pagefile is not a good idea, since the
> system will incur unnecessary VM activity resolving page faults, and
> slow 'disk-IO' operations to the ramdisk. If you just give the
> Ramdisk-ram directly to the O/S, performance will be better.
>
> Of course embedded-XP is best, and a demo is freely downloadable.

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