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Virtual Ram?

MrKnight
By MrKnight
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Was hoping some could explain what it means to have 4Gb of Virtual Ram on my server, I m new to using my own hardware just trying to learn 

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Virtual RAM I believe is the portion of the drive reserved for a page file. It's there in case the system runs out of RAM. It can dump some stuff there for other programs to use.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

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Is the paging file.

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