When your computer starts to run out of RAM to run programs, it borrows a designated area on your hard drive to swap stuff in and out of memory. This place is called the page file in Windows (Swap partition in Linux). The whole idea is aptly called virtual memory. Before running out and dropping a couple of hundo on more RAM to increase performance on your computer, you could try to increase the size of your page file.

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