Anyone disabling pagefile?

cavemanoc said:
So would there be an advantage on the 12Gb system of having 6Gb as system RAM, and 6Gb as the pagefile on a RAMDisk type thing? (Given that ram is so cheap, and very little uses 6gb, let alone 12Gb)?

Often wondered the same thing with Superfetch/(the other one who's name escapes me)
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I don't think windows allows you to have a pagefile on anthing other than a physical recognised hard drive
 
In some of our servers, pagefile matches the installed memory. ie It defaults to a 48GB pagefile on servers with 48GB of ram. I generally just change them to about 4GB. It officially needs the same amount of physical memory +50% because it has to dump all the crash data into it when the system goes **** up, and that could be 48GB. But if you disable that option, then you dont need a `system managed` pagefile.
 
NathanE said:
12GB RAM means you need a 12GB page file. No ifs and no buts.

Regardless of some applications "requiring" it (the only program I can think of that perhaps fits this description would be Adobe Photoshop)... the whole operating systems requires a correctly sized paged file in order to function properly.
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mrk said:
The 1.5x sizing scheme does not apply to later versions of Windows.

The pagefile should be left system managed.
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= correct
 
You always need a pagefile. Cerain aspects of your OS/Programs need to use the pagefile. It should be set at 1.5 times the amount of ram you have. "If i remember correctley" !
 
darkcooleo said:
You always need a pagefile. Cerain aspects of your OS/Programs need to use the pagefile. It should be set at 1.5 times the amount of ram you have. "If i remember correctley" !
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Probably best to leave it on the "let windows sort it out" setting. A few months ago I had problems on both my main PCs ... on one games would freeze for a few seconds every so often and on the other there seemed to be constant disk activity even when nothing was running. Both PCs had had their RAM sizes increased (I'd up-ed the first from 1GB to 4GB and then used the old 1GB RAM from that to up the other from 512MB to 1GB ... though the HDD issue there had been present before the RAM change).

After some time trying to work out what was going on something made me look at the swap file settings and I found in both machines the setting had been changed to a fixed size setting which was now inadequate for the installed RAM (I suspect that in the past this was done when I ran a PC "tune-up" program). Set both the "let windows manage pagefile" and problems on both disappeared!
 
Which hard drive should I stick the W7 pagefile on then (when it arrives...)? The drive I intend to install the OS on is somewhat faster (Samsung Spinthingy F3 500gb) than the older one (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500gb).

Cheers...
 
KPeh said:
Which hard drive should I stick the W7 pagefile on then (when it arrives...)? The drive I intend to install the OS on is somewhat faster (Samsung Spinthingy F3 500gb) than the older one (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500gb).

Cheers...
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You won't notice any difference. Once upon a time I even created small FAT32 partitions at the front of the platter to take pagefiles. No point, no real performance benefit, don't bother. Go to the pub instead.
 
Also bear in mind that say yo have 16GB RAM, a single application cannot use it all. There is a 2GB (can be adjusted to 4GB iirc) per application memory limit and so virtual memory will still be used with very memory intensive apps.
 
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