Cache Allocation and Virtual Memory

[Phan7]

Will starwind use virtual memory for cache when it runs out of conventional memory?

e.g. 3 targets using 2 GB cache on a machine with only 3 GB RAM.

I have seen it allocate 2GB for the first target but not for the other 2 targets... even though virtual memory should make this possible?

Might sound a bit of a stupid question, but I was expecting to see the pagefile get used, I'm unable to fully test this at present due to a shortage of resources!

[anton (staff)]

It's an extremely bad idea to allocate cache from paged pool. We pin cache in non-paged pool and keep memory management in kernel mode.