Any reason not to disable Windows kernel paging?

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Published on 2009-09-15T03:39:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 5:25 UTC
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So I'm planning on eventually going to 2 GB (mobo max) RAM from 1 GB, and I want to disable kernel paging once I do, because I've heard it can give a performance boost (and that I believe). Any reason not to do it or any general thoughts about it?

Edit: for clarification, this is not disabling general RAM paging. This is disabling having kernel memory paged (or at least parts of it, as Charlls noted).

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