lonesyndal Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Hello everyone of TI,Though this is not strictly a laptop discussion, both my current PCs are laptops running 128GB mSATA SSD and 1TB SATAII.I have a question regarding usage of the memory paging file created by Windows and how should I set it up without impacting performance and creating issues on the PC.Some time ago, I faced a memory leak issue in which increased the Windows page file to roughly 47GB (I have 16GB of RAM, so this value is somewhat understandable, but very dumb). I do not know how exactly is it ticked off to go that high besides the leak issue, and was wondering what is the general file size of this page file and if its even necessary.Do not discuss the degradation of SSD lifespan as that is not important to this topic and I'm pretty sure everyone knows SSD's will last a long time even without the usage of paging file. I just wanted to know the important of this system and how it directly affects us end users who like gaming and performance.If possible, put into layman's terms if you can. Otherwise, I'll have to make a few read-throughs to understand on busy days.-Lone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambroseg1 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 My page file is set to 16MB-1024MB. Also have a 128GB SSD for the operating system and many a storage hard drive for all my junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalvinAMi Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 The PAGEFILE thing honestly doesn't make much sense to me on the amount of storage it bookmarks. Guru's say that the pagefile should be at least 1.5x-2x your installed memory (including GPU memory). With that logic my pagefile should be set at 13312 (i have 6GB of system memory and 512MB GPU memory) Some tech-heads say anything over 8GB of installed system memory, you should actually disable pagefile all together. Pagefile should optimally be set on a secondary drive other than the system drive, but it can exist anywhere really. Check out this video for a quick/simple "set it and forget it" tutorial. Honestly, Windows 7/8 does a fine job of managing the pagefile by default. Any benefits from a change in size are going to be moderate at best. I hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajh5408 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I believe the rule of thumb for page file size (i.e. a multiple of your RAM capacity) is more about being able to dump the contents of memory in the event of a crash. I run a similar setup to yours (16GB RAM/256GB SSD) and keep my page file set to a minimum of 100MB and a maximum of 1024MB (1GB). It's important to have from a functional perspective, as some applications are simply programed to use/require it, but I see no reason to make it any larger than it needs to be.That said, I do not think that you are going to see a meaningful difference no matter its size, given a generous amount of RAM and ultra fast storage in the form of an SSD. While it will continue to serve a purpose as an OS component, its impact on performance is simply lost in a system backed by modern equipment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newleaf1 Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 While I was taught in college that the page file is very important, in my 16GB rig I don't run more than 1024MB of page file. From what I can tell, increasing the size of the page file doesn't improve the performance of many modern applications when RAM is available. I've used the "recommended" page file settings in the past, but I feel like it just wastes storage space. I would argue that if you've got at least 8GB of RAM, you really don't need to focus on page file size on a 64-bit system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias4X Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Use page file only if you have applications that use way more than the ram than you have or regularily experience a full ram (blender rendering or so) 8/16 gig of ram today is fully efficient for running without any pagefile at allGesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cresterk Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I keep my pagefile on my hdd instead of my ssd since it eats up too much space on my little 128gb sandisk. I would not recommend disabling it completely because some programs go nuts without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AESdecryption Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 From my own experience, the page file can be set under limitations by the file's size. If you set a limit to the page file and your programs exceed both RAM and page file limitations, the memory respective to the applications currently running are subject to crashing (ie. Google Chrome crashed on me for excessive amounts of tabs). You can read the following tomshardware thread (here) for instructions on how to change your settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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