I've seen system go to page swapping when handling too much at a time, and consequently grind to a crawl, where just cutting back on the running processes would have made everything run much more smoothly . talk ) 19 : 14, 18 July 2014 ( UTC)
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:Another thing that makes a PC struggle is having to do a lot of page swapping, into a very large swap file and / or on a very full hard disk . 1Gb is borderline enough for an XP box expected to do large copying jobs or screen displays ( like multiple thumbnails ) if you have integrated video.