Win7 64 has gobbled up 35 GB of new 60 GB SSD !

I believe larger pagefiles become fragmented, thats why the size is kept to a minimum.

I would still suggest bigger than 1GB however, because programs out there are written to utilize it, and some programs will want to swap gigs at a time, And if the room isnt available in Physical memory, And your Page is tiny, what happens?

FYI the source of '1.5' is MS's Technet. So its not just random advice.
 
wannabedamned said:
FYI the source of '1.5' is MS's Technet. So its not just random advice.
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Not random, but arbitrary, so might as well be random. It's based only off the fact that Windows (arbitrarily) defaults to the "1.5x ram or 4gb max" rule in some versions of their OS.

Sorry but some of MS's advice comes from a lot of hand-me-down information from within the company and some of the things said are done so without knowing the actual reasons why.

Obviously the sources I mentioned are also from within MS's realm too, however they're talking about actual tests and analysis of the OS and/or source code in order to produce their conclusions. If Russinovich says the 1.5 thing is ********, then ******** it is.

How much does that degrade the life of your SSD though?
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Depends on your system configuration. If you enter the realm of low memory and swap file thrashing often, I imagine it could be quite a bit, however the advice from both MS and SSD vendors who actually have to replace the SSDs under warranty when they fail, is to place the swapfile on the SSD itself.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...BC-for-OCZ-SSD&p=567577&viewfull=1#post567577
 
Use 1GB minimum 2GB max for the page file. There really isn't need to have more since you have 8GB of RAM.

My Windows folder is about 18.5GB now.
 
billysielu said:
The page file should be 1.5x the size of your RAM. So 12GB.
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There's no formula for it, 1.5x your RAM means the more physical RAM you have the bigger the pagefile you require? it doesn't make any sense.

It's probably best to just let Windows manage it, if you set an upper limit chances are eventually Windows will use it all up and complain unless you run relatively simple programs and don't multitask much.
 
mmj_uk said:
There's no formula for it, 1.5x your RAM means the more physical RAM you have the bigger the pagefile you require? it doesn't make any sense.

It's probably best to just let Windows manage it, if you set an upper limit chances are eventually Windows will use it all up and complain unless you run relatively simple programs and don't multitask much.
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If Windows manages it, it'll allocate more room as required, but it will mean the pagefile is fragmented. It doesn't matter on an SSD, but on an HDD you wouldn't want a fragmented pagefile. It's not a massive problem - just an enthusiast thing :)
 
After installing 1.2 GIG of video editing sfuff and a massive sound library for Alchemy i have 36.5 GIG left on the drive so a very good outcome and thanks all again :cool:

Oh and damn it's fast ! even crippled by the cheap SATA card .
 
wannabedamned said:
I believe larger pagefiles become fragmented, thats why the size is kept to a minimum.

I would still suggest bigger than 1GB however, because programs out there are written to utilize it, and some programs will want to swap gigs at a time, And if the room isnt available in Physical memory, And your Page is tiny, what happens?

FYI the source of '1.5' is MS's Technet. So its not just random advice.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windows-7-and-ssds-cutting-your-system-drive-down-to-size/2941?pg=3
 
Your pagefile should be set to whatever you'll actually need and with 8GB of RAM, unless you're doing something crazy like running a ton of VM's I doubt you'll need a pagefile at all, but I'd just set a smallish 500-1000MB one just to keep programs happy that require one.
 
Broken Hope said:
Your pagefile should be set to whatever you'll actually need and with 8GB of RAM, unless you're doing something crazy like running a ton of VM's I doubt you'll need a pagefile at all, but I'd just set a smallish 500-1000MB one just to keep programs happy that require one.
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That's a good point ! tried loading all the AVCHD vids i have and can't really get the memory usage above 3.8 ish gb.

Tha video speed has improved since the SDD but probably still using the page rather than the 8Gb ram ! Ill try no page file.
 
bonehead666 said:
Tha video speed has improved since the SDD but probably still using the page rather than the 8Gb ram ! Ill try no page file.
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1) Certain programs NEED page file to work properly. Leave it enable but reduce the size.

2) SSDs are great in utilising page file because of their short access times.
 
Ok this has been interesting , now have the pagefile set to 512 -1024 all seems fine, what i dont understand is why dont i see the memory used up when i load a 3.6 Gb file into the video editor?

What is actually the point of 8G of RAM if it's not used?

ETA I can see it still pulling it off the data drive, why not load the whole file into memory if there is enough ??!
 
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Im using a 64bit video editing application though but having looked at windows recource monitor there is a graph for 'Standby' RAM. 'Memory that contains cached data and code that is not actively in use' and that was filled up when loading a lot of video files but that doesnt show as actual RAM usage on the system monitor.

I think i got it now :)
 
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