pagefile size for 6gb ram

[methimpikehoses]

What should I set it at?

[Drolfrawd]

What should I set it at?

As you have such a lot of Ram anyways I would set your page file at the max recommended by the Gates fellow, which is 4048. Others might have some other idea's including bo page file. Having no page file is not good though for various reasons , that noobs always miss.

[methimpikehoses]

Thanks for the SR, drol. Could have been swifter, tho.

[Sgt_Pitt]

Turn it off, theres no need to even write to pagefile with 6 gig.

Unless your using some serious large mem intense apps/files

[|MaguS|]

Turn it off, theres no need to even write to pagefile with 6 gig.

Unless your using some serious large mem intense apps/files

I would never recommend disabling it. Some apps use pagefile even if you have plenty of ram. I would just set the min and max to what your physical ram is.

[saturnotaku]

I would never recommend disabling it. Some apps use pagefile even if you have plenty of ram. I would just set the min and max to what your physical ram is.

And put it on a hard drive separate from your OS if possible.

[|MaguS|]

And put it on a hard drive separate from your OS if possible.

Does that really help? I have mine right now on my OS Drive since it's the fastest in my system. I know back in the day they use to say to do it to help with fragmentation but if you set it to a set amount it shouldn't cause any fragmenting.

[Bman212121]

I honestly stopped messing with it. I've never noticed an improvement by changing it's value.

[pkirby11]

I would never recommend disabling it. Some apps use pagefile even if you have plenty of ram. I would just set the min and max to what your physical ram is.

Really? Two years running with 8GB of RAM and no page file. I've yet to run into a program that misses it.

[methimpikehoses]

I turned it off and haven't noticed any change.

My vista must be borked, it's been bogged down lately. Lots of HDD activity for no apparent reason. :(

[Maverick123w]

Sure it's not infected?

[crainger]

Does that really help? I have mine right now on my OS Drive since it's the fastest in my system. I know back in the day they use to say to do it to help with fragmentation but if you set it to a set amount it shouldn't cause any fragmenting.

It does help, but on modern systems it's getting less and less and Vista despite what many say is reasonable efficient with paging.

It's also not to be confused with just sticking it on another partition on the same drive. I know so many people that do that then tell me how fast their systems magically became...

[methimpikehoses]

Sure it's not infected?

If it is, then it is going undetected by avira and spybot. I also reistalled Vista just to be sure, still seems bogged down.

Looking forward to Win7.

[Sgt_Pitt]

I would never recommend disabling it. Some apps use pagefile even if you have plenty of ram. I would just set the min and max to what your physical ram is.

I've had it off since XP, and i've never seen a program apart from photoshop that complains about it.

[Eliminator]

i use system managed no matter how much ram i have