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Civics are legos with extensive aftermarket support. Type-Rs are designed to be tracked (IIRC fastest FWD in NA). People often mod these to track better, and in JPN obviously mod them to drive them illegally on highways.

Civics, or more specifically the older naturally aspirated engines from Honda as a whole (including the F20C1 found in the S2000 AP1) are high-RPM engines, often revving to 8500-9000 RPM, which is going to be loud no matter what you do.

No, not all mods are designed to inflict something on someone else. Popular FL5 mods are designed around engine/oil cooling, brake capacity (prevent fading), and camber. Yes, you can get nuts with a racing-only, non-CARB DP or a non-valved exhaust, but that's a personal choice. Not every FL5 owner follows that ethos. But you can also go with a CARB-compliant DP, valved exhaust (OE is valved, many aftermarkets use valved exhausts), and even if you do a mid-pipe resonator delete, it's no louder than it's sister car, the Acura DE5, which doesn't even come with a mid-pipe resonator from the factory.

And yes, a modded FL5 is a ton more fun to drive than a non-modded one due to a single, hidden mod - replacing the suspension controller with one from a DE5 or from DSC makes the ride much smoother. Honda doesn't get everything 'right' (but they do get engines down pat).

Ofc, you do have fire-breathing 1000hp S2000s out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw2tYyBbZ-Q

It’s fortunate we’re on HN to easily identify this comment as sarcasm, but can you imagine being so ignorant as to believe this? What kind of brainwashing is required to think one could get an “abortion on demand” up to birth?

Truly such a belief could only come from the lowest IQ amongst humanity.

Windows will autogrow the page file (*swap file is separate from a page file in Windows; swap is exclusively for UWP apps) as needed.

It sounds like the application wanted to allocate contiguous regions of memory when none were available. That's a typical indicator of an 'early' OOM condition.

This doesn't solve the original issue and only masks the underlying problem.

You're moving goal posts. No, a page file doesn't solve the problem of a misbehaving application, but it does solve the problem of an app crash because no more VAS allocation can be made.

You should really dive into Windows Internals. Only misinformed gamers turn off page files.

Your argument falls flat when a page file can be multi-GB and automatically grow. And if your application admin was competent, memory monitoring would be part of the application monitoring stack.

An application that grows in such a way (besides having backing stores for memory-mapped files, as well) will often perform so poorly that it requires addressing (adding RAM, looking for application faults, etc).

A page file is insurance, one that can last you much longer than available system memory.

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    The purpose of the system commit limit and commit charge is to track all uses of these resources to ensure they are never overcommitted — that is, that there is never more virtual address space defined than there is space to store its contents, either in RAM or in backing store (on disk).
- Windows Internals, 7th Edition

This is almost always a bad idea.

If no memory is available where a page file would make a difference, this leads to application crashes instead. A crash is (usually) worse than paging.

Certain applications, Photoshop being the historical example, will outright fail to run with no page file present.

Old software wasn’t universally fast. And the load/expectations of server software was quite a bit lower due to fewer users, in the case of a web server.

I can remember the slow loading of Bryce 3D or Photoshop or Office on P133 with a 5400 RPM drive.

The nostalgia is strong with this one.