what should i set my page file to?

D1craig

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i was playing path of exile with a path of building open and maybe 5 tabs on google chrome and my game came up with an alert "armoury - paging file too large" (i didnt read it all tbh so i might be wrong i jsut clicked it away) it could have said too small im only 75% sure. i continued to play the game for another 5mins then it closed itself.

so what exactly should i set my page file too? ive read something thats says initial 1.5x your system ram and maximum 4x system ram. i have 32GB. so should i really be setting this at 128gb? i checked and mine is set to less than 5gb

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D1craig said:
i was playing path of exile with a path of building open and maybe 5 tabs on google chrome and my game came up with an alert "armoury - paging file too large" (i didnt read it all tbh so i might be wrong i jsut clicked it away) it could have said too small im only 75% sure. i continued to play the game for another 5mins then it closed itself.

so what exactly should i set my page file too? ive read something thats says initial 1.5x your system ram and maximum 4x system ram. i have 32GB. so should i really be setting this at 128gb? i checked and mine is set to less than 5gb

posted in this section because it relate to RAM?
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Sounds like ASUS armoury crate playing up; I doubt it knew what it was talking about. With 32GB of ram you should not really use a paging file, especially given only a few browser tabs are open.

I set a minimum of 8GB and max of 32GB myself.
 
but my game did crash like 5mins later. if it was just asus playing up would that have happened?

do i need to set it for all of SSDs separately?
 
System managed. Let windows do whatever it likes nowadays, to fiddle is to cause unnecessary issues in my experience. Haven't needed to fiddle with things like this since after XP.
 
Yeah that sounds right. I’m at a bit of loss about what to suggest other than to see if it happens again. However I would pounds to pennies that your page file sees near zero usage.
 
Used to be by default 1.5x your Ram but that would be big today, leave it System Managed which will change size Dynamically or try 2GB or 4GB if you get issues with likes of PhotoShop etc.

Even if not used a lot of programs will act up and nag you if no page file is available.
 
well i change dit to 8 and 32 max. if i get this problem again i will have another look and see if windows handling it is better. i would assume thats how it was anyway. i cant really set it to x4 (as suggested by the google search i did) as that would be more than my OS drive lol.
 
4x is BS, Windows was 1.5x back when we had 256MB/2GB System Memory, now if you had 16GB Memory than that would be 24GB off a Mech HDD which would probably be a minimum at that time of 250GB/500GB and could have even been 1TB so not a big deal but the first SSD's were about 32GB/64GB so that is a good chuck gone even on a 128GB.

No doubt that is part of reason MS changed it in newer version of Windows.
 
According to the guy who developed the original incarnation most of the advice is wrong (including the advice from MS which he doesn't support).

Depends a bit on your setup but initial/minimum should be 1024MB to allow the OS to function properly when panic/error conditions occur maximum will depend on amount of RAM and what your software requirements are - you'll rarely use more than 8GB but in some specific use cases you might need enough to dump your whole RAM plus around 1GB overhead for OS.

(I usually use 1GB minimum 8GB max and never have an issue).

If you are still on a mechanical HDD without any storage amount constraints set it to a static size of at least 4GB.

Or you can leave it on automatic if you have a modern SSD and no storage space constraints though it will usually over allocate and make inefficient use of writes (though not a big issue on a modern SSD) - generally has best compatibility but not always best performance and might have issues on systems with large amounts of RAM.
 
Rroff said:
According to the guy who developed the original incarnation most of the advice is wrong (including the advice from MS which he doesn't support).

Depends a bit on your setup but initial/minimum should be 1024MB to allow the OS to function properly when panic/error conditions occur maximum will depend on amount of RAM and what your software requirements are - you'll rarely use more than 8GB but in some specific use cases you might need enough to dump your whole RAM plus around 1GB overhead for OS.

(I usually use 1GB minimum 8GB max and never have an issue).

If you are still on a mechanical HDD without any storage amount constraints set it to a static size of at least 4GB.

Or you can leave it on automatic if you have a modern SSD and no storage space constraints though it will usually over allocate and make inefficient use of writes (though not a big issue on a modern SSD) - generally has best compatibility but not always best performance and might have issues on systems with large amounts of RAM.
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Interesting. So the page file sees use even when there’s plenty of memory about?
 
I have mine on system managed. I used to have it set myself with a minimum and maximum size, but for whatever reason unreal engine 4 did not like it on my X99 system & would BSOD randomly on games using it. System managed since then and no more issues. No idea why, 16GB of ram and the games never came anywhere near to using it.
 
Zefan said:
System managed. Let windows do whatever it likes nowadays, to fiddle is to cause unnecessary issues in my experience. Haven't needed to fiddle with things like this since after XP.
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+1

I can confirm Zefan is 100% correct. I'm a software dev, I develop AI software with large datasets, computer has 64GB ram but can still run out and go into page file. Always keep your page file at system managed.

The only time you want to change from the default settings is if you span the page file over multiple drives, this gives a RAID 0 type performance to the page file.

philo-sofa said:
Interesting. So the page file sees use even when there’s plenty of memory about?
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The reason page file can be in use, yet you still have spare memory, is due to Windows determining some memory space is almost never used - memory that's allocated but almost if ever accessed - think of a Windows service that's loaded but sitting totally inactive. What this does is it frees memory for standby memory (file caching).
 
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I use 32GB RAM. Personally, I set the page file to fixed 4GB and be done. Not had any problems. I use Asus Armoury Crate too.
 
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