Hi. I have a program that I use as an alt-tab replacement. I wrote it in .NET, so it has a sizable memory footprint. Since I use it only occasionally, it tends to get paged. So when I call it up, it often takes a few seconds to display. This is very annoying. Is there a way to prevent it from being paged so that always comes up immediately?
I could always write it in a more lightweight language, but is there a solution short of that?
A dirty trick is to put a timer in it, that triggers some useless (empty) computation every so often, to prevent (revert) pagination.
Put lots of memory in your computer. It's unlikely that any solution involving software development would be cheaper than that.
We dont have direct control over VM in C#. It may be possible to hook into VM with some advanced stuff like p/invoking something you write in C++ (Hans Passant could probly tell you all about that). You can also compile for x64 and run on 64-bit system with sufficient RAM and disable VM (I don't recommend disabling VM on a 32-bit system where you cap at 4GB's).