XP-Paging Files

AMDX23800+ · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:16

Hi,
Will i get better performance out of my system if i turn off the paging file? (0mb)

I have 2gb ram, as in my sig.
Someone told me i would get better performance running no paigng file.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Imp

Burnsy2023 · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:20

AMDX23800+ said:
Someone told me i would get better performance running no paigng file.

Give that person a slap and leave the pagefile for Windows to manage.

Burnsy

AMDX23800+ · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:24

Haha!
so 'System Managed Size' ?
Cheers

AMDX23800+ · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:28

I'm still open to suggestions if anyone else thinks differently btw

lol

modo77 · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:35

Leave it to windows

bledd · 30 Jul 2007 at 15:30

burnsy2023 said:
Give that person a slap and leave the pagefile for Windows to manage.

Burnsy

yup, i've read up a lot on this, and xp knows what it's doing

TheVoice · 30 Jul 2007 at 17:05

I personally have mine set at 2048. Makes no big difference either way though.

.walls · 30 Jul 2007 at 17:47

leave it on...

Baka^Ni · 30 Jul 2007 at 18:07

If you're sorely lacking in ram and you have two seperate hard disk drives, you can create one pagefile on each drive and speed up paging.

This only really makes your pc more responsive if you're tabbing in and out of a memory intensive app (supreme commander with 82km maps and 8 players)

NathanE · 30 Jul 2007 at 19:45

AMDX23800+ said:
I'm still open to suggestions if anyone else thinks differently btw
lol

If anyone thinks turning off the paging file is a good idea then don't listen to them

They obviously don't have the first clue about how modern operating systems work.