Question

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?

Answer 1

A dirty trick is to put a timer in it, that triggers some useless (empty) computation every so often, to prevent (revert) pagination.