Visualizing Secondary Storage
Sunday, January 4th, 2009I was curious about how page file looks like when represented as a bitmap picture image like I previously did with memory dumps and I expected it to look like a picture of a complete memory dump due to its purpose as a backup to physical memory. It looks similar indeed. Here is a picture of a 1.3Gb pagefile.sys from my home computer after running Vista for last 2 weeks, generated by Dump2Picture tool and resized from 18400 x 18400 32-bit bitmap by ImageMagick:
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -