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by Tobba_ 2866 days ago
On Win10 you need to have enough swap space on an SSD; HDD I/O has totally kneecapped latency, seemingly due to blind usage of NCQ (AHCI driver got replaced from Win7), so it chokes out entirely when combined with the even more broken swap manager.

"Enough" meaning "infinite", because you're going to have something leaking all that memory. Task manager doesn't even show memory usage by default (add the "commit size" field), only the working set (and the swapping is insanely aggressive, so memory leaks just don't show up). Nobody seems to actually check that; even built-in stuff like Windows Update leaks pretty badly.

Oh and the memory accounting doesn't even work.