With 16GB of RAM, Can I afford to run windows with no pagefile?

Only if you’re using more than several GB of paging space, which you won’t be!

Otherwise, no difference whatsoever.
 
My system had a PF of 12GB (same as the amount of RAM) so I have dropped it down to 4GB and will see what happens.

Stoner81.
 
I bet a left nut that nothing "happens" other than gaining 8GB of space. More if you shave the PF down further. As has been said many times already, monitor and size accordingly. My usage is quite high and mine is less than 1GB
 
Running with 8gb on a gaming rig for over a year w/ PF turned off. No difference whatsoever to performance.

My RAM usage has jumped up about 700mb, but tbh if your running 8gb or more RAM, you'd want to turn it off just so that the extra GB's actually see some use.
 
Sorry to go semi off-topic here:

Is it possible to use a RAMDISK instead of using the hard drive as a page file then?

How exactly do you setup a RAMDISK. Sorry again for the off topicness.
 
madindehead said:
Sorry to go semi off-topic here:

Is it possible to use a RAMDISK instead of using the hard drive as a page file then?

How exactly do you setup a RAMDISK. Sorry again for the off topicness.
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It's possible yes but you'd be a complete and utter idiot to do it.
 
Heres my swapfile usage, and Ive changed swapfile from 16gb to 4gb......

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And when stressed with IBT it goes up slightly.

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I have 8Gig of RAM and stopped using a page file earlier in the week, mostly as a test but I have to admit I haven't noticed anything major either way. No problems however which surprised me, although I've yet to fire up photoshop. I usually just let MS decide for me when it comes to the page file, but with an SSD I doubt I'm really speeding anything up by not having one so it's a bit of a pointless debate.
 
Paging is supposed to be a (slower) alternative when the system's RAM is exhausted. What would be the point in putting a pagefile on a ramdisk? Doing that just takes away RAM which would have been directly available to the OS anyway. You'd be making use of the same RAM, but via a much more complicated process.
 
Mattus said:
Paging is supposed to be a (slower) alternative when the system's RAM is exhausted. What would be the point in putting a pagefile on a ramdisk? Doing that just takes away RAM which would have been directly available to the OS anyway. You'd be making use of the same RAM, but via a much more complicated process.
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Agreed. Using a RAM disk for a page file is just wasting RAM that could be used by the OS.
 
Assuming most programs in use today are 32bit and Windows x64 only allocates 2GB blocks of memory to those programs. Would windows not start hitting the page file for that application once a 32 bit program uses up the 2GB of memory? Having the page file in a ram disk would surly stop any performance hit?
 
The only 32bit program that would do that that I can think of is a 32bit web browser with a memory leak or someone uses it to view an image thread and gif thread on JoeRogan forum but then again such users would know about this and be using a 64bit version anyway?
 
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