I can see the rationale for having your hands in memory rather than having to use the hard disc all the time , but does this lead to a page file conflict so that instead of accessing the hard hard disc for hands , the computer is thrashing the hell out of the hard disc swapping memmory in and out of the page file.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to just load the peoples hands into memory (if not already loaded) that you are playing against as they join the table,and free that memory up as they leave your tables.Should lead to an optimum performance where only data that is needed is fetched and the system is not slowed down by page file issues.