"to reduce the risk of lost data in the event of a power outage"??
Doesn't sound right to me; if the power goes, you're rebooting into a fresh memory image, not recovering to the memory state in the current pagefile.
Eagerly synching back to disk is surely more about making sure you have a minimal amount of dirty pages in RAM at any time, so that in the event that you need to use a lot of RAM for something else you don't have to wait until the backing store updates before the page space in RAM is free... no?
Edit: Oh, I see - you're saying that 'page out' refers to writing a page of data back to disk through a memory-mapped file - it's basically just a disk write, and has nothing to do with memory pages or pagefiles. Hmm... is that terminology distinction universal?
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"to reduce the risk of lost data in the event of a power outage"??
Doesn't sound right to me; if the power goes, you're rebooting into a fresh memory image, not recovering to the memory state in the current pagefile.
Eagerly synching back to disk is surely more about making sure you have a minimal amount of dirty pages in RAM at any time, so that in the event that you need to use a lot of RAM for something else you don't have to wait until the backing store updates before the page space in RAM is free... no?
Edit: Oh, I see - you're saying that 'page out' refers to writing a page of data back to disk through a memory-mapped file - it's basically just a disk write, and has nothing to do with memory pages or pagefiles. Hmm... is that terminology distinction universal?