should I disable PAGE-FILE?
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tweaks for SSD on websites say to disable it aswell as superfetch etc... i thought it was bad advice - i followed some of the tweaks like disabling indexing on all files on the drive and couple of others & it slowed boot and shutdown, i had to restore.. the real performance gain was enabling AHCI mode (which wasnt in the guide I looked at) - windows7 takes 10 seconds from end of POST to DESKTOP
anyway
I have 4Gb of 1600Mhz ram (2x2) - what size pagefile should I have?
anyway
I have 4Gb of 1600Mhz ram (2x2) - what size pagefile should I have?
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Why not leave it on the SSD? Are you worried about running out of space?
...from the OCZ forum
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...ks-Utilities-*&p=442158&viewfull=1#post442158
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...ks-Utilities-*&p=442158&viewfull=1#post442158
This guide is for the older Indilinx drives. Almost all "SSD tweaks" you'll read in articles or forums are for older generations and will actually harm performance with newer drives. Leave things alone - modern SSDs have loads of reads/write cycles and should last much longer than the average HDD even with a page file on them, indexing enabled, etc. Of course a valid reason to disable or move it is if you're running out of space but then your SSD shouldn't be 95% full in the first place.
Whatever you need. Some people could disable the page file with 4 GiB of RAM, others would need a large page file even with 8 GiB. Set it to 4 GiB and then open some memory-intensive programs that you use and see what the total usage is.
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Snadge, leave it as system managed. With 4GB ram it will create a 4GB page file, but have the option to increase if needed.
SSD makes no difference to how page file is used, as page file is paging main computer memory.
To see page file activity, open Performance Monitor and add the PageFile stats.
There is away to speed up the page file on HDD (including all your HDD activity). Create a readyboost drive on your SSD, and your SSD will cache frequent HDD requests. You only need to allocate a couple of GB to notice a good improvement in HDD access. Read my post below.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18262214&highlight=readyboost
SSD makes no difference to how page file is used, as page file is paging main computer memory.
To see page file activity, open Performance Monitor and add the PageFile stats.
There is away to speed up the page file on HDD (including all your HDD activity). Create a readyboost drive on your SSD, and your SSD will cache frequent HDD requests. You only need to allocate a couple of GB to notice a good improvement in HDD access. Read my post below.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18262214&highlight=readyboost
If using page file on HDD. Although I mentioned leaving system managed, if you create a large page file with fixed upper and lower limit of same size, it will prevent pagefile from becoming fragmented. You need to have continuous free space available on your HDD available already really, and even de-fagging may not leave a block large enough for you.
You can take the above one step future, by creating a separate partition for pagefile, this way it's impossible to get fragmented.
Also, from a MS paper I read, page files work best with 64k cluster size. So if going to trouble of creating a separate pagefile partition, when formatting set cluster size to 64k.
Hope above all makes sense.
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Yes it will still work regardless of SSD being boot drive.
1) So yes move the pagefile to HDD.
2) Create a small'ish readyboost on your SSD, 2GB is a good size if your short of space but still get good gain.
The readyboost will effectively make your HDD hybrid and improve performance of repeat HDD reads by moving this data to your SSD.
You can monitor readyboost using performance monitor. Also if you open resource monitor and switch to disk access, if you sort by read requests, you will eventually see many read requests coming from the readyboost (SSD) that would normally of been made by the HDD.
...and this will only be beneficial IF i moved the page-file to HDD... what if I kept it on SSD would doing the same thing have any performance increase for other files on the HDD? - I have some larger programs installed on the HDD (FSX, Office, Adobe PS & DW)
could I partition SSD for readyboost to improve performance of these files?
thanks
could I partition SSD for readyboost to improve performance of these files?
thanks
The SSD readyboost will improve all repeat read access on the HDD, so all your programs and data regardless of where page file is located.
Now that is a very good question! SSD's don't get fragmented, so there is no need for a partition to stop that. I've not read anything on the preferred cluster size for a readyboost volume, it's designed for Fat32 memory sticks so presume 4k clusters are fine for it. In my other thread readyboost was stored on NTFS with 4k cluster size.