Saving Memory To Disk

Breakthrough

I was thinking about this today, if it was possible to transfer virtual memory (running Windows processes) to disk-space temporarily. Then, you could bring the memory out of suspension on the disk-drive, thus enabling you to save a program in it's state. In theory this idea is simple, but actual implementation would be difficult. Does anyone know if such a program exists?

theclam

Windows automatically comes with suspend, hibernation, stand by, or whatever they're calling this sort of thing.

If you mean individual programs instead of the whole system, then I don't know of any answers to your question.

SoulSkorpion

You know, that's pretty much how virtual memory works anyway <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

I don't know of any existing programs that do this. I'd think that it's the sort of thing that needs to be part of the operating system. I think you'd get a segmentation fault if you simply tried to read through the memory yourself.

[WHO]Them

As pointed out earlier, windows does this all the time for hibernation modes (my laptop does it whenever I hit the power button instead of shutting down).

To do this to only 1 program would be possible, but I'm unaware of any programs that currently do it.

Breakthrough

Yes, I was talking about single programs. If you did that, you could technically send another person your suspended program, etc. I just thought it would be a handy program for me to use...