I'm currently using an IBM T40 Thinkpad, with XP/Pro SP1* and 2Gig Ram. Looking at the task manager, I'm using around 800Mb, with 1.2Gig free.
However, XP still seems extremely keen to swap things out to disk at any opportunity, so every time I maximise a previously-minimized window I have to sit here and wait while Windows pages it back in. There's no need for Windows to be swapping at all, as the half-gig page file would still fit easily in physical memory, and i'm changing windows regularly so it's getting annoying. I don't remember Win2k being so bad on a T30 with 1Gb, so it must be an XP thing. Any idea if I can tune it to be less enthusiastic?
I can't just disable the swap file, because i'm running some rather heavyweight software (WebSphere Application Server and Oracle 10g) and it sometimes has a real need to swap.
*it's a business machine, and SP2 isn't allowed on yet.
