Windows 7 64bit

Jonnygrunge · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:03

What should I set the swap file to?, or should I just let the system mange it?

Evil-I · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:29

Unless you're doing something clever like using excess ram (if you have loads installed) as a ramdrive, I'd just go with letting windows manage it.

I think some people disable it completely if they have a large amount of RAM installed so that theres no paging at all. I have 8Gb but run a few virtual machines upon occasion so leave it all up to windows still.

Glaucus · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:30

leave it as be.

Bony Maloney · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:44

AcidHell2 said:
leave it as be.

This....

swinnie · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:45

Leave the system to manage it. It works very well.

UberTiger · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:47

So how much ram would be recommended before you disable it completely?

swinnie · 29 Jan 2010 at 17:51

UberTiger said:
So how much ram would be recommended before you disable it completely?

I wouldn't. I'd still have the page file.

Hoodlum · 29 Jan 2010 at 18:36

Evil-I said:
Unless you're doing something clever like using excess ram (if you have loads installed) as a ramdrive, I'd just go with letting windows manage it.

I think some people disable it completely if they have a large amount of RAM installed so that theres no paging at all. I have 8Gb but run a few virtual machines upon occasion so leave it all up to windows still.

This. Minimum of 8gb to even consider disabling it, preferably more.

UberTiger · 29 Jan 2010 at 20:26

Hmm...I've disabled it on my netbook because it was part of the OCZ recommended SSD tweaks to carry out. It does warn that the system will crash if it runs out of memory, but I'm not doing too many memory intensive tasks on it. I guess I'll keep it that way until I get a crash then reinstate it if I have to.
Probably wouldn't do it on my desktop though as even wiht 6GB of RAM I wouldn't trust it to not run out of space what with all the crap I end up leaving open.

BlueMhz · 29 Jan 2010 at 20:36

Leave it system managed, unless you have 2 or more hard disks, then consider moving the paging file off the system drive.

Jonnygrunge · 31 Jan 2010 at 14:42

BlueMhz said:
Leave it system managed, unless you have 2 or more hard disks, then consider moving the paging file off the system drive.

I have two Blacks in RAID0 and a backup drive, might consider this advice! Is it worth moving the swap file off the system drive though?

Hoodlum · 31 Jan 2010 at 15:37

Jonnygrunge said:
I have two Blacks in RAID0 and a backup drive, might consider this advice! Is it worth moving the swap file off the system drive though?

Yes if you have your apps on the system drive because during heavy disk access the swap will be heavily constrained by latency and read/write speed (slow to a crawl). On a separate disk it will perform optimally at the same time as getting the full throughput from the system drive for whatever process you're running (which would have been slowed by swap access otherwise, limiting throughput).