Hello,
I've looked for solutions to this problem, but I am not sure if the solutions given would be the best option given the amount of overflow onto my Pagefile.sys.
I've been using SpaceSniffer to clear out some extra data on my hard drives. The biggest file on them is pagefile.sys which I understand is necessary when the system may run out of RAM. I found online that it only needs to be 1.5x or 2x the amount of RAM that you have. I have 32Gb, so I assume I only need 48-64Gb, which I would be fine with.
Currently, I have 2 internal hard drives and 1 external.
C:\ drive, which has used 367.8 / 500Gb and the pagefile.sys is 26.8Gb
H:\ drive, which has used 1Tb / 2Tb and the pagefile.sys is 167.1GB
K:\ drive, which has used 2.53Tb / 4Tb and the pagefile.sys is 565.1Gb
When I look in the Control Panel at the Virtual Memory, it says the total paging size for all drives is 777,418MB. The recommended size is 4985MB.
My question is if I change the maximum size to the recommended, will it delete anything necessary for my computer to run? Or is this all temporary memory that is put on the pagefile, that the computer no longer needs and can be deleted anyway? If the pagefile is made for RAM overflow, I would think the latter might be the case, but articles online don't make it super clear.
Also, why is this so large in the first place? I have had 32Gb of RAM for the majority of the life of this computer. I use a lot of Adobe Products for photo/video editing and have allocated lots of this Ram towards them when they are running. Are these two related? For example, could I have set too much allocated RAM for Premiere, and if I open Photoshop it starts dumping onto the pagefile.sys? I have had a lot of issues with running out of RAM on my MacBook when merging pictures in Photoshop, but have never had the issue on my PC.
Thanks in advance,
Fgaff
