"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'll ask you then since Manny didn't!!
>
>what does it mean then by "allocated"?
>

Allocated would mean the amount of page file space that has been
mapped to application programs, device drivers, and/or windows
compoenents.

Most if not all of this is probably related to the unused portions of
memory allocation requests. Windows, by design, must allocate memory
address space to satisfy all of the memory allocation requests that
are issued. And most allocation requests are for more, sometimes
substantially more, memory than will actually be used under normal
circumstances. In order to efficiently manage the available RAM,
addresses in RAM are only allocated to those portions of the requests
that are actually used and the unused portions are mapped to locations
in the page file. This mapping of unused memory requests to the page
file does not require any actual disk activity - all that is necessary
is to make the appropriate entries in the memory mapping tables
maintained by the CPU.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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