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Originally Posted by psyki
The first thing you may notice is that a higher pagepool will decrease the available program memory, so you will see a higher memory percentage in use. This does not mean you are using more memory, just that the percentage is higher given the decrease in total memory available. I was reading up on what pagepool memory does and as far as I can tell (I could be way off) it becomes more and more useful the longer your system is running. Basically when you use a program or access a file it stores a pointer to it in the pagepool, and when you access the same program or file again it looks in the pagepool first before moving on to look in memory. A higher pagepool means more space for these things to be stored, so if you soft-reset a lot you may not see any benefits.
Again I could be totally wrong but that was my interpretation after some light research. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in and enlighten us all  |
From what i read it is very similar to a swap file on a PC. It utilizes the space in case you run out of memory as well. On the computer if you want to run multiple programs and you are limited to Memory (ram) then you use some allocated space on the HDD (swap file) so that you don't run out of memory and therefore notice decrease in performance....Feel free to correct me if i am wrong.
TK