disable page file with 8GB ram?

pooey · 24 Feb 2011 at 10:14

As title, can I disable windows 7 page file if I have 8gb of ram? System used for gaming mostly. Thanks.

div0 · 24 Feb 2011 at 10:21

Why would you want to?

Just let Windows manage it - if it doesn't need to page, then it won't.

pooey · 24 Feb 2011 at 11:01

I'd like to save space on my boot ssd, windows takes up the space for the page file regardless of its need to be used doesn't it?

bledd · 24 Feb 2011 at 11:11

don't disable it, if you really need the space, then move the pagefile to another drive, set it as 'system managed' for that drive

Avathar77 · 24 Feb 2011 at 11:17

when I had 6 gb of ram, I used to ran super speed ramdisk and put 2gb on the ram disk, after that I kept the page in there.

SiriusB · 24 Feb 2011 at 12:19

Fire Wizard posted a great thread on the Pagefile not long ago - do a search.

In short he explained that generally you should leave Windows to manage it. Though if you have a large amount of RAM, it is worth reducing its size. How much you reduce it depends on how you use your computer.

As for moving it to another drive, I think that is a bad thing to do. You want the pagefile on your fastest drive. Just reduce its size.

Broken Hope · 24 Feb 2011 at 12:37

With 8GB of RAM unless your workload has a chance of filling that you should be fine with a small 1-2GB pagefile.

Raumarik · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:17

Have you disabled hibernate mode at the command prompt? that can save a few Gb of space. Personally I'd leave the pagefile well alone and on the SSD, you'll get a performance boost from doing so.

Cosimo · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:53

Here is Fire Wizard's thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18256398

I'd just let the system manage it.

pooey · 24 Feb 2011 at 21:03

simulatorman said:
Here is Fire Wizard's thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18256398

I'd just let the system manage it.

Ah cheers for that