The Page file

I would like to give my thoughts about the Page file and would like some thoughts about it from some of the other members. I could be wrong on my assessment but would like some other opinions. My laptop computer is running Windows 7 64 bit. I have 8 gig of ram installed. As far as the Page file is concerned, I had it set so that Windows controls the size which was 8136MB. First of all, it boggles my mind why Windows wants that big of a file simply to use it to write logs. Second, there are two potential problems with the Page file: First it can become corrupt which could cause problems. Second, it could become a security issue. I have therefore edited the registry so that it clears the file on shutdown. The only drawback is that it takes a long time to shut down since it has to clear the file. My computer would take 3 minutes to shutdown. I therefore set the Page file at 50 MB which I think is large enough. Now it takes only 1 1/2 minutes to shutdown. I'm going to leave it like that. I would appreciate it if we could have some discussion on what I have said. Thanks

Deacon is exactly right. That's what I do on all my systems because they all run on small SSDs. 1 or 2GB is enough for the pagefile and clearing it at shutdown is for the birds.

pbcopter said:

The page file (virtual memory) is not for writing logs. If you have 8GB of RAM, you probably don't need 8+ GB of a page file but if it is too small, memory dump files, for diagnostics, will not be available in case of asystem crash.

Isn't the "memory dump file" a log file?

pbcopter said:

@Frank1
Yes it is but it is not stored in the page file (virtual memory). The system uses the page file to create the memory dump and stores it in C:\Windows.

Thanks, I didn't know that.