Will Windws always reserve more memory than the ram I have?

[Golf1.6]

Had 4Gb ram before, I recall windows saying there was a total of 6GB memorry reseerved (including swap file). Now I have upgraded to 8GB ram and windows is saying it has 9.3gb reserved memory.

Juse wondering will it be the same if I had 16gb ram, will it still reserve 17.xGB memory?

 

[Mr-White]

Really depends how the page file is configured, but usually the more memory you have the bigger the page file.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/change-virtual-memory-size#1TC=windows-7

MW

 

[Caged]

It will always need to use as much disk space as you have RAM for hibernation/low power sleep modes. As well as a bit more for paging.

Let Windows manage your memory and don't worry about it - 16GB RAM is cheap, 16GB of disk is even cheaper.