Policy

Enable NTFS non-paged pool usage

By default NTFS allocates memory from both pageable and non-pageable memory as needed. Enabling this setting tells NTFS to use non-pageable memory for all allocations. NTFS also changes all of its code sections to be non-pageable. The benefit of enabling this feature is a reduction in page-faults and stack usage at the cost of additional memory consumption. A reboot is required for this setting to take effect

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category System / Filesystem / NTFS
Policy ID 6c052ad56b34
Internal name NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation (enabled) = 1
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

By default NTFS allocates memory from both pageable and non-pageable memory as needed. Enabling this setting tells NTFS to use non-pageable memory for all allocations. NTFS also changes all of its code sections to be non-pageable. The benefit of enabling this feature is a reduction in page-faults and stack usage at the cost of additional memory consumption. A reboot is required for this setting to take effect

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