Managing page files

pauLAW

pauLAW

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Hi guys

I currently have 8gb RAM in my machine and 2 HDDs. One HDD is an SSD containing all my main installs and windows 7.

8gb Page files are being created on my SSD which I have routed to my 1tb hdd to save space, my SSD is 120gb.

I am looking to put another 8gb in my machine which will up the page file size to 16gb and beforre I do I thought I would check how you guys are managing the page files.

Any advice would be great - thanks
 
8Gb RAm and using a fixed size 8GB page file located on a seperate 30GB cache SSD drive.

To be honest, there's no reason to change the default settings simply for performance reasons. I changed mine simply to save space on my boot drive SSD which is only 128GB and could have easily just disabled it completely but games are now using quite a lot of RAM so I played safe.

You arguably actually need a smaller page file if you have more RAM. I'd keep it at 8GB when you upgrade RAM to 16GB if I were you.
 
As above and i certainly wouldn't be moving the cache off to a separate standard HDD as this will create latency between the two drives. Basically, everything OS related should remain on the SSD partition unless you can off load it to another SSD.

With 16GB however, you may get away with turning the page file off completely. Try it.
 
I just dropped my page file down to 1GB when I got an SSD (have 16GB system mem), never had a problem.

Did the same on the wifes PC when she got her SSD (has 8GB system mem), again, never had a problem.
 
I think I will put it back on the SSD and reduce it to 1gb.

The only reason I moved the file was to save space on the drive.

Thanks for all the comments, helpful as ever
 
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