16Gb need pagefile?

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Have 16Gb in my new PC, do I need to bother with the pagefile as its eating up space on my SSD.

So do I:

1) Move the page file to the traditional SATA drive?

or

2) Turn it off or make it really small?

Kimbie
 
hyperst said:
Some programs do not work correctly with out one, so best to move it to a HDD
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Such as?

This was true back in the XP days, but I doubt many if any 'require' a pagefile now.
On many servers we turn off page files altogether. As long as RAM is available there is no problem.
 
I totally removed my pagefile with 16GB of memory, I've not noticed anything bad since - everything still works as it should.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Such as?

This was true back in the XP days, but I doubt many if any 'require' a pagefile now.
On many servers we turn off page files altogether. As long as RAM is available there is no problem.
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I know Dawn of War 2 won't run without a pagefile. Also if you do a lot of heavy photoshop or video editing you may well end up needing it.
 
Leave page file on, Windows memory management will choose to use if required. SSD is perfect place for page file however.
 
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mjones1 said:
Not on most SSD's due to the amount of data it would end up writing to it.
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Personally I have 2 Crucial M4 SSD's storing spanned readyboost, temp files, indexing & spanned page file. Prior to these I ran a 3 year old Kingston Value 64GB doing similar job. I noticed no issues other then 1 bad sector on the Kingston. I agree however that SSD's degrade, however changes are by the time an SSD fails it will be obsolete anyway.

Taken from Microsoft MSDN Windows 7 blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.
In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that
Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.
In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.
 
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I just turned mines from 8gb to 1gb.

Now have an extra 7 gig of storage on my SSD!

Windows should tell you about this stuff before you get all panicky about where your storage has gone!
 
I disabled mine ever since I got 24 Gb ram, and never had any problems.

I even reinstalled my 2 Gb modules for some benching recently, and it still worked fine without any pagefile.

For some reason, my 2 Gb modules score a lot higher in Metro benchmarks even at crapper timings than my 4 Gb modules do :x
 
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