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What are page outs and what do they mean?

ImAliveUK said:
As the title says - I'm not sure i understand what they are!
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Page outs are when your computer uses all of its RAM and it starts using the hard disk drive/SSD as RAM. Hard disk/SSD access is much slower than RAM, therefore your computer takes a performance hit.

If you have adequate RAM, you shouldn't see many page outs. It is a good indicator if you need more RAM.
 
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