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I have a lot of RAM on my machine, but I keep getting various ""Out of memory / Not enough memory" errors despite the RAM itself rarely ever being fully-utilized. Relevant System Specs: OS: 64-Bit Windows 10 Pro CPU: Intel 14900k RAM: 64GB 6600 Corsair Vengange DDR5 MB: MSI ACE Z790 GPU: MSI 3080 Despite having 64GB, utilization never appears to go over 32GB (which I know can be a limit to 32-Bit OS's but I am running 64-bit windows). I've heard that the CPU's iGPU can reserve some system RAM to use as VRAM, but I don't have any monitors running off the iGPU. And I wouldn't expect it to reserve 32GB, most figures I've seen say it would take 2-4GB when in use. I don't fully understand what Windows is doing with RAM under the hood, but could the issues also be related to paging/virtual memory? Looking at the pagefile size, it does appear to be mostly utilized. Shows ~93GB committed out of a 95GB pagefile. I don't know why it wouldn't use more of the available physical RAM since ~32GB are still free Some ideas that I had. Should I: Add even more RAM Bump the 64GB up to 128GB (Though that's more than I need) Though using 4-sticks of DDR5 can be a bit hit and miss (I would almost definately need to reduce the speed) Would have mis-matched kits (since I'm not buying an entire new 128GB kit for ~$500+) If it behaves the same, would it only use 64GB of of the 128GB anyway? The most expensive option Adjust Pagefile Currently I believe Windows put the pagefile on the main C: drive (possibly not ideal due to faster wear on main boot drive if other drives are an option?) Buy a small (e.g 256/512GB) m.2 SSD to dedicate just for paging Move the pagefile to said new drive, increase file capacity to 256/512GB (2.5-5x increase in virtual memory?) Much cheaper than RAM since small SSDs have gotten pretty affordable Something else I hadn't considered?

help I want to disable paging file I disabled it in settings and registry and it stays task manager still says it has a paging file I got a Asrock A520M ITX/ac mother board I have looked through the bios and also tried disabling a setting that said it protects paging file or something but that hasn't helped. help

Today I downloaded WinDirStat (Great Program) for some PC Cleaning up. The first thing I notice is that my page file takes up 46 GB's of my system storage. Wondering how I can fix this. PC Specs: Alienware, 16 GB Of Ram, 500 GB HDD, Main purpose for gaming.. http://prntscr.com/febgte

No Pagefile? Pagefile on secondary drive (HDD) - would that slow down my system? Fixed Pagefile on SSD? 1GB? 4GB? Prevent read and writes? What is the correct answer? I have seen conflicting answers throughout multiple forums. From what Im seeing, No pagefile is bad, pagefile doesnt make that many big writes/reads to SSD, some people have a fixed size to prevent memory leaks (chrome) creating huge pagefiles. https://www.howtogeek.com/199990/should-i-disable-the-page-file-if-my-computer-has-a-lot-of-ram/ I am a heavy Chrome user, up to 5 windows 10-40 tabs each. I do have multiple VM's that fill my RAM. No content creation, ie; photoshop,video editing. I play a few games here and there (CSGO, Star wars battlefront, planetside 2) I recently had drive controller failure on an SSD and sent it in since it was still under warranty. That is why I am concerned about drive writes. Current Pagefile: 3862MB System: i5 4690k @4.6 OC 16GB DDR3 1866 120SSD running W10Prox64 Multiple other 5400 HDD drives

Hi, as you can seef rom the attachment, my pagefile usage reaches 17GB although windows settings is set auto to 5.5GB!, what is the reason? and is it fine to disable the page file and have my ram handle everything? i have 16GB of ram 8x2 2666mhz CL 12-14-14-34 i have 2 ssd for win and games and 1 HDD for misc. i have some gaming sttuter on a fresh copy of windows with all drivers are upto date.

I have had my page file on my OS drive 7000-7000 I read online to try that when I was having issues playing metro last light, however games are on a different drive. So I was wondering what to do for C drive page file. Should I set a custom size (what recommended for 16GB if so), auto manage or system manage? Any help appreciated.

Hi, I recently noticed that my pc is consuming 15GB of pagefile or virtual memory, isnt too much? I have 16GB of ram and only around 6-9GB is used so i have plenty to spare. I have 8x2 ram, all SSD, no HDD Pagefile is set to system, didnt change anything? But is this normal?

Hey, I havn't really thought about this ever before, but I just noticed that my laptop has a pretty massive pagefile useage. While in normal day-to-day useage with 15-20 chrome tabs open and discord on but not much else running in the background, my ram sits at 6-7 gb used and while gaming, it hits 12-13 gb used (out of 16). What worries me though, is that MSI Afterburner is telling me my pagefile is nearly 20 gb (!!!). I'm kind of thinking that number is inaccurate though, but have a look yourself and let me know what you think. Pagefile size is currently automatically set by windows. Screenshot below is while playing Battlefield 5 (sorry about the task manager being in swedish, you should be able to figure it out though:) Is it time I went and bought another 16 gb for my laptop and/or should I fiddle around with my pagefile? Or am i simply missunderstadning the numbers? Again, I'm new to this, so thank you in advance! Full specs. - MSI GT72VR 6RE Laptop - Intel 6700HQ (undervolt -177 mV) - 16 GB ram (2400 mhz CL17) - GTX 1060 6gb (+162/+366 mhz) - 970 EVO 500 gb nvme SSD + 1 TB HDD

I have been looking for a post or a video from LTT about the current state of the pagefile. I have seen posts from years ago about how disabling the pagefile can crash your computer. In 2018-2019, is a pagefile still required when you have 32GB+ of RAM? I was hoping someone had tested it recently. If it isn't, are there any other settings besides just turning it to "No Paging File" in Advanced Virtual Memory settings in Windows 10? If this has been answered somewhere, I apologize. Thanks in advance!

Hi,. Recently i noticed that my games are using high pagefile or virtual memory instead of regular RAM. Typically in multiplayer games and open world games, ram usage shiuld be high like BO4, BF5, CoH2. I attached screenshot of BF5 stats, it shows that its using 7GB ram and 10GB of virtual memory, although on youtube the game can draw upnto 10 and 11GB of ram.? Im having bad performance and huge FPS drops and stutter. I tested the ram using multiple benchmarks and windows utility and all is fine. I have i7 4790 RX 580 @1480mhz 16GB DDR3 on dual channel. @1600mhz Page file size is default (windows determined). Shadow of the tomb raider can use upto 15GB of virtual memory. I have 2 SSD, one for system and one for games.

i have 5 HDDs installed on my computer. After watching this video, I wondered if i distribute the paging file across all my HDDs with the exception of the main C drive, if i can get better performance. Although Linus does recommend for a small pagefile to be placed on the main drive for system dumps for crashes. But I has none since i usually kill the blue-screen before it can actually dump.

so today i added 2 4gig ram sticks to my 8 gig ram stick got it to work (other brands) total 16 gigs, so i started gta 5 to play some and see the pagefile reaching 13000mb+ gta 5 using around 5 gigs. So i turned off the pagefile on my drive and load into gta 5 again with msi afterburner+rivatuner to see the pagefile, and the same thing happens is it supposed to be this way?

My question is do I really need the Windows pagefile if I have enough RAM? I have 32GB of RAM, I don't really plan on using any programs that will hammer it so I don't really think I will ever reach those 32GBs. I bought the kit because it was cheap and because I wanted to not worry about RAM in the future. Is it safe to disable the Windows Pagefile feature? Or due to how Windows works it's necessary to leave it on? And if it's necessary to leave it on, is it better for me to pick a size to use like let's say 8GB just in case on the SSD, or is it better to let Windows automatically pick its size?

During some gaming today, my PC froze completely. After that every time I try to boot I instantly get a BSOD which says: "page found in nonpaged area", or "Critical Process Died". So first I though it was a a corrupted OS issue, So I tried booting from a windows 10 installation USB, however this also results in a BSOD with the message: "page found in nonpaged area", Or "Critical Process Died". So I though maybe I'm not booting right, so I disconnected my SSD, so there is only the Windows 10 installation usb left. I still get the same error. I tried running MemTest86, multiple times and every time it finishes after about 8 hours with 0 errors. I'm running the following setup: i7 6700K 32GB of dominator platinum (4x8GB), with XMP on and off. (Also Tried it with just 1 stick of ram installed) Asus Maximuss Formula VIII AMD Fury (Disconnected to rule out issue) I tried looking for the BSOD dump, however there was non on the Install USB, and I don't have any devices where I can plug the sata SSD into. So I'm currently clueless does someone know what the issue is?

Hi guys. I'm having a problem with my PC and i was hoping you could help. When i start up my PC it sometimes starts with BSOF. The message i'm getting is: PAGE_FAULT_IN-NONPAGED_AREA (iomAP64.SYS). It usually happens when i reach the log in screen. I doesn't happen every time, but pretty often. As far as i can read it has somthing to do with the page file. I've tried to read up on how to set the page file online to fix it, but it's all pretty confusing. Do any of you know how to fix this?

Back when I was on Windows 7 I changed my paging file a bit. Originally, it was on my SSD, and that is undoubtedly not good, so I moved it over to one of my HDDs. Anyway, I have 16GB of Ram and 16384 MB of virtual memory allocated to my HDD, for all drives. Is this too much for Windows 10? Should I just allow Windows to set the recommended size automatically? It says the 'recommended' is around 2936 MB maximum.

I use a lot of memory intensive applications such as virtual machines and Adobe Creative Cloud, so both of my main computers are maxed out on memory. i have a custom built AMD based computer with 32GB of memory and a Mac Pro 12-core with 64GB both running Windows 10 Pro. When I took my basic hardware and Windows 7/8 classes a year ago, we were told that you should always set your virtual memory or pagefile to 1.5x your memory, and to have it on a separate drive if possible. Is this still considered best practice on current computers, or should I just let Windows 10 take care of it for me? I do have a boot SSD and separate data HDD, but any way you look at it allocating 96GB to a page file is a lot of space. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

On Windows 7, my normal procedure was to go to the page file settings and set the initial and maximum size to the number beside "recommended" which was 24487mb. Now that I've upgraded to Windows 10, it kept it custom at 24487mb but now the number but now it's recommending 2936mb. Should I keep it at 24487mb or change it to 2936mb?

Hello my friend tried to make some changes to the pagefile (move it to a diffrent drive). The computer became slow and the whole computer crashed when opening google chrome. The computer is still slow and crashes when opening google chrome when the changes are reverted. Any idea what i can do?

GTA:V PC page file optimization advice Hey guys, when I just started playing the game I got a few crashes. I red an article about pagefile settings on my samsung SSD, and no crashes so far, but my ram usually sits at 95% usage, CPU usage under 25 and GPU usage is fine, and the GRAM is fine [max 2.8gb used] I'm here to ask you guys if my settings are correct Pagefile settings: http://i.imgur.com/Rp1TUai.png My game is on drive C Computer specs: Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate x64 (Latest windows updates) Samsung 840 PRO 512gb SSD Intel i7 5820k @ 4.0ghz (6 cores/12 threads & water cooled) Gigabyte g1 gtx 970 windforce (Latest drivers) 8gb ram 2133mhz DDR4 (adata) [2x4gb @ duel channel] ASUS X99-A (SOCKET 2011-v3) -- Game settings: I don't think there is a big issue, according to Process Hacker the most GRAM (video ram) used was 2.8gb Shadows, water, and reflections are lowered to "Normal" since in most games they take more resources than they're worth. -- I'm here asking you guys what are the best page-file settings for my 8gb of ram -- both initial and max; I hear GTA:5 loves windows page file even if you have a monster amount of ram. P.S: Temps are not the issue whatsoever. Thanks in advanced!

I saw Linus tweeting about how the hibernation and pagefile sizes are huge with 128GB of Ram and was just curious of what these actually are, how the amount of RAM affects these folders and whether it's a good or bad thing?

Hi, I don't know if this is the correct section of this forum to post my thread but anyways, I have 8GB of ram and I use about 50% MAX. Should I disable the pagefile? Will it make my computer faster? Should I make it smaller? I have noticed that the System process in task manager sometimes uses 100% of my HDD, and then everything is slow. Could this be from the pagefile? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Hi guys, I have this problem, i recently reinstalled my computer, and somehow everytime it gets BSOD. The thing is, its always different BSOD message, first its "Memory management", then its "A clock interrupt was not recieved on secondary procesor.." and one more which i havent see in a long time so i cant remember it. I ran memtest 86 on both on my RAMS, and a didnt recieved any error. I tried to switch rams between slots, and and just pulled one out, and vice versa. I always do a hell of troubleshooting but now iam out of ideas. Can someone somehow help me fix it? I ran windows from multiple harddrives, i always get the errors, so most propably it wont be a faulty hard drive, but i would really appreciate any ideas, or some checking with TeamViewer or Razer Comms. Thanks for everyone for your replies. Paul. {My specs : ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 9/6/2013, 19:17:49 Machine name: PALI-PC Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: MSI System Model: MS-7636 BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: Intel® Core i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.9GHz Memory: 4096MB RAM Available OS Memory: 4056MB RAM Page File: 1732MB used, 6375MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode //////// --------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce GTX 460 DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0E22&SUBSYS_23811462&REV_A1 Display Memory: 2749 MB Dedicated Memory: 978 MB Shared Memory: 1771 MB Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor Monitor Model: SyncMaster Monitor Id: SAM05CC Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz) Output Type: DVI Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um Driver File Version: 9.18.0013.2049 (English) Driver Version: 9.18.13.2049 DDI Version: 10.1 Driver Model: WDDM 1.1 Driver Attributes: Final Retail Driver Date/Size: 6/21/2013 14:06:36, 15144928 bytes WHQL Logo'd: n/a WHQL Date Stamp: n/a Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4D62-11CF-D37F-8C031CC2C435} Vendor ID: 0x10DE Device ID: 0x0E22 SubSys ID: 0x23811462 Revision ID: 0x00A1 Driver Strong Name: oem1.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section023:9.18.13.2049:pci\ven_10de&dev_0e22 just a paste from dxdiag, for any other information just type what you need. ou yea and i have 2x 4gb Geil Value plus (dont worry about brand) }

My desktop PC is normally very fast but once I leave it idling to go for a walk or something and come back after half an hour it is extremely slow and laggy nearly to the point of being unusable. I have tried many things include changing the power setting to High Performance and setting turn off hard drives to never but nothing is working and it always becomes laggy after idling, which means I have to restart it every time I come back. I am suspecting it is something to do with data in RAM being passed to the pagefile on my hard drive and then not being loaded back quick enough when I come back from idle. Is there any way to fix this> Should I defrag my pagefile to solve this issue?

So after recently formatting my PC (to place my windows 8 OS on a new SSD), I came across a slight issue which kind of irritates me. Under advanced system settings, I had manually configured the pagefile location so that it would delete from the SSD and re-create itself on the HDD (cutting down on a slight bit of performance for lifespan-sake). I restarted my PC, went onto disk management and the status of the HDD had stated that it was holding a pagefile, which is what I wanted - however the SSDs status on the other hand still claimed that it was holding a pagefile too. After checking that I'd definitely turned off the pagefile on the SSD, I restarted again and yet to no avail I found that disk management stated the SSD was still holding it's own pagefile. I would really, really appreciate it if anyone could help me out here, and tell me if this is normal (ie the pagefile is still on the SSD but the machine is no longer writing to it) or if there's another step I have to take in order to fully disable/delete the pagefile on the SSD. Thanks in advance! BenMC