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Along the same line, I've never understood Windows' propensity to swap out the kernel. I might have tons of free memory and half my kernel is swapped out. In fact, I've never figured out how to get it not swapped out, no matter how much memory I put in.

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You could try this (from an elevated command-prompt), but the general consensus is that it has a small (if any) effect:

reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" -v DisablePagingExecutive -d 0x0 -t REG_DWORD -f

Disable it with: reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" -v DisablePagingExecutive -d 0x1 -t REG_DWORD -f

More discussion here: http://serverfault.com/questions/12150/does-the-disablepagin...

The easiest way (if you have enough memory) is just disable the paging file.

Since we're talking about optimization, if you're on a SSD you should disable prefetching--which is essentially a technique for older (read: shittier) computers.

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