you require pagefile for doing memory dumps and considering the lot of you on here have unstable machines that bsod a lot
your gonna need that page file unless you turn off the memory dumps.
also some old apps refuse to start up (an old version of sage did this to me) if there is no pagefile. can be sorted by setting a pagefile size of 16mb even.
also someone mentioned that its best to leave the pagefile set to system managed. thats just plain daft and stupid. i recently built a machine with 16gb ram in it and the pagefile that system used was over 16gb big.
considering that system had a 74gb raptor in it as the sole hard disk, 16gb chunk is a huge waste on a raptor. i manually set it to 1gb pagefile and left it at that. could have set to even smaller size but not fussed since 16gb+ is taking the wee.
yellowbeard said that windows pages its drivers etc to pagefile regardless of ram amount, thats correct but i believe the registry command DisablePagingExecutive set to 1 will prevent windows from doing that and keep all stuff in ram.
if your sure you dont have apps that require specific use of a page file then you can just turn it off or either stick the pagefile on a different drive or just stick it to the minimum allowed size of 16mb and your system will be fine depending on the apps you use.
at worst you open up a file in photoshop or something that exceeds your physical ram amount and you get out of memory error. in which case start looking for 32gig ram setup.
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also some old apps refuse to start up (an old version of sage did this to me) if there is no pagefile. can be sorted by setting a pagefile size of 16mb even.
also someone mentioned that its best to leave the pagefile set to system managed. thats just plain daft and stupid. i recently built a machine with 16gb ram in it and the pagefile that system used was over 16gb big.
considering that system had a 74gb raptor in it as the sole hard disk, 16gb chunk is a huge waste on a raptor. i manually set it to 1gb pagefile and left it at that. could have set to even smaller size but not fussed since 16gb+ is taking the wee.
yellowbeard said that windows pages its drivers etc to pagefile regardless of ram amount, thats correct but i believe the registry command DisablePagingExecutive set to 1 will prevent windows from doing that and keep all stuff in ram.
if your sure you dont have apps that require specific use of a page file then you can just turn it off or either stick the pagefile on a different drive or just stick it to the minimum allowed size of 16mb and your system will be fine depending on the apps you use.
at worst you open up a file in photoshop or something that exceeds your physical ram amount and you get out of memory error. in which case start looking for 32gig ram setup.
hahahaha