idea Idea: Page File On RamDisk

[jakey1995abc]

I've had an idea.
I have 32gb (4x8) of ram meaning I don't really need a page file, but if I disable my page file some old (and broken) applications will either fail to run or have very poor performance.
So what if I set a ramdisk to allocate my pagefile directly to my ram? This way my pagefile will have the same performance as my actual ram, instead of running off of slower storage!

Will this work and could this cause any issues if I go ahead with it?

[Guest]

Page file is almost never used by your system. 

When memory usage is about 100% the system will utilize page file.

 

Setting a page file on ram disk will no nothing more than if you turned off page file all together.

[lx_srs]

Excuse my language but this is retarded.  The page file is there for when you run out of RAM.  If you like hard crashes this is a fantastic idea though.  You can stop Windows from paging any memory by going to advanced performance options in sysdm.cpl if you want this to be a reality now, just know that if you max out your RAM usage you now have 0 buffer.

[Applefreak]

14 minutes ago, jakey1995abc said:

I've had an idea.
I have 32gb (4x8) of ram meaning I don't really need a page file, but if I disable my page file some old (and broken) applications will either fail to run or have very poor performance.
So what if I set a ramdisk to allocate my pagefile directly to my ram? This way my pagefile will have the same performance as my actual ram, instead of running off of slower storage!

Will this work and could this cause any issues if I go ahead with it?

Yes some applications will store stuff in the paging file. Moving it into memory is possible, you need to create a ram disk and mount it as a storage drive. I know howto do it in linux, no idea howto in windows. However it can create problems because ram is non persistent and with power loss, like shutting down the system, that drive and everything on it is gone.

[Kilrah]

There are ways to make a RAMdisk on windows, but I don't know of one that would be loaded before Windows itself, which likely would be required to put a pagefile on.

 

Anyway as mentioned, unless you're on an HDD it's pointless, pagefile use when you have 32GB will be almost inexistent. I used to always disable it back in the days of win7 but it's no longer necessary.