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mauvehaus on Dec 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)

On NT, if the kernel bugchecks and it's configured to do a full or kernel memory dump, it dumps to the pagefile [1] (which get's copied elsewhere after you reboot). If you were looking for another good reason to have a pagefile the size of your physical memory on NT, there you go :-)

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254649

marshray on Dec 5, 2012 [–]

Yep, me and like 3 other guys I know actually do look at kernel minidumps and have a big pagefile for that reason.

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