What is the connection between RAM and Paging Files?

Sometimes we only know what is RAM, and if the computer is slow mean the less RAM, and that's not the right opinion I think, because we have to know What is the connection between RAM and Paging Files? and here Inside The Computer will continue the last post from Surfing the RAM.

On that analogy, the wide of that work table will affect the ability to handle or lift a task. If the table is too narrow or tight, probably we will need to repeat the process to bring the file from the locker to work on table. Or there is other alternative, which is heaping the file on the line then we doing the task.

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Same with the PC, if the program or data we work on too big to loading on RAM, PC will use part of harddisk (hard drive) that already set to save the data which cannot be save on RAM. The special part on the harddisk which dedicated to that process we use to call Virtual Memory. Paging file or we use to know as swap file on Windows operating system is one of the example from virtual memory. If we access paging file often, that will be decrease the PC performance.

Beside the performance of the PC will decrease (slower), there is still other problem will shown, such as the hard drive is work too hard and keep working hard even we didn’t do a task, save data, or any process, that because the CPU need the data on paging file inside the hard drive.

This situation probably will not happen, when the PC loading is still in the low rate, RAM still can accommodating the data and the active instruction. But when the PC loading is full, and the data loading and the instruction getting more and more, the RAM or memory start to lose the loading place. And if this situation happening to your PC, that mean your PC need bigger RAM capacity.