pagefile

[bobsmith123]

i have 4gb of ram, in my pagefile settings, it has suggested i use 6150gb for the pagefile, i was leaving it to be system managed but read sometimes that it benefits the system to have a fixed point so set both min and max to 6200. is this worth doing or should i just let wondows manage it? 6200gb seems a lot with 4gb of ram?

 

[Golden]

That is a lot. What sort of applications will you be using Bob?

 

[niemiro]

i have 4gb of ram, in my pagefile settings, it has suggested i use 6150gb for the pagefile, i was leaving it to be system managed but read sometimes that it benefits the system to have a fixed point so set both min and max to 6200. is this worth doing or should i just let wondows manage it? 6200gb seems a lot with 4gb of ram?

Hello!

6200GB!

No way! 12GB would be considered massive! Are you sure that is not 6200MB. Then it would be a perfect size. I know Windows sets pagefile in thousands of MBs. That sounds a lot more realistic.

Richard

 

[pparks1]

I set mine to a set size. Force of habit more than anything else. I use 1.5x as much RAM as I have. Although I realize this is unnecessary, hard drive space is so crazy cheap, that I simply don't care. So, with my 8GB of RAM at home, I use a 12GB page file on my spinner drive. If I really became pressed for space, and buying another hard drive was simply out of the question, I would immediately go after that page file and reduce the size of it.

 

[bobsmith123]

i have read that if you have a large pagefile the system sometimes uses this in preference to ram? obviously i dont want that happening....

 

[pparks1]

I've never experienced that. My page file is hardly touched at all.

 

[whs]

Just leave it to the system to manage. There is nothing to be gained if you play around with it - one reason being (as pparks said) that it is hardly ever used with 4GB of RAM.