Windows 7: MAX Virtual Memory?

What is the MAX Virtual Memory? Is the MAX Virtual Memory different for 32bit & 64bit OS's?

I know that there is a MAX because I set mine to 10Gig & it was not accepted by 32bit Windows 7.

MLStrand56

If you mean pagefile, on 32bit it should be around 3.3~4GB tops

How would Windows 7/32 with 4 gigs of ram except 10 gigs in virtual memory. My suggestion is don't set it and just let Windows 7 take care of memory. It does it quiet well.

Having a 10G pagefile (virtual memory) would be counter-productive. Windows swaps out portions of memory to disk when it runs short of physical memory with the objective of preventing a system crash due to insufficient memory. Your hdd or even an ssd is slower than RAM so performance suffers greatly. It's a compromise, run slowly or crash. The recommended pagefile size for Win 7 is equal to how much RAM you have but, as has already been stated, the average user should just let Windows manage it.

While I appreciate everybodies suggestions, Nobody has actually answered my questions.

MLStrand56

A quick search on Google reveals that the maximum size of virtual memory is three times the installed memory.

Change the size of virtual memory

As you are using a 32-bit version of Windows, the maximum you can set your virtual memory at is 9.75GB (3x3.25) and explains why Windows is telling you that you can't set it at 10GB.

I agree with strollin that it's best to let Windows manage it.

Read: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

With a 1TB HD in this computer, I can afford 10Gig of Virtual Memory.

Since it's the concensus here that Windows only uses Virtual Memory, when it runs out of RAM, the question becomes, Why WOULDN'T Windows 7 be able to use a 10Gig Virtual Memory?

Since my questions refer to setting the Virtual Memory to MAX, Recommending that I let Windows set the Virtual Memory, is of NO help to me.

MLStrand56

I don't believe the size of your hard drive has anything to do with the setting of your ram. IMHO Windows 7 unlike the older systems doesn't need such settings. Windows 7 does like lots of ram. For 99% of the people who use Windows 7/64 just add more ram if possible. Their are very few tweaks to Windows 7 that will make things better. Now you might be the 1% .
Have a nice day.

What do YOU think the advantage would be to 10G of virtual memory? Your computer would run so slowly (if Windows ever needed to use all of it) that it would come to a stand still swapping things in and out of RAM to disk.