Win11: pagefile/ram question

[Starfy]

Hello there,

 

i build a new PC half a year ago and was using MSI Afterburner lately to benchmark the performance while gaming.

I noticed that the pagefile size increases mostly parallel to ram usage and it feels like, that it shouldnt work like that but i dont know how it works

 

Is that all fine or squishy?

Espacialy in games like dying light 2 the pagefile size jumps up to 10gb more, and im using low/med settings 1080p tryed everything.

 

 

[Tusk2435]

10 minutes ago, Starfy said:

Hello there,

 

i build a new PC half a year ago and was using MSI Afterburner lately to benchmark the performance while gaming.

I noticed that the pagefile size increases mostly parallel to ram usage and it feels like, that it shouldnt work like that but i dont know how it works

 

Is that all fine or squishy?

Espacialy in games like dying light 2 the pagefile size jumps up to 10gb more, and im using low/med settings 1080p tryed everything.

Hi, welcome to the forum!

That doesn't look right; as far as I'm aware, the pagefile usage almost never acts like that. I think Afterburner might be giving a wrong reading. You can compare Afterburner's value with what you see in the Task Manager, in the Memory tab.

[Starfy]

Thanks for the welcome!

 

Here, i have currently cod: vanguard open and closed a bunch of tabs in my browser:


Everything defaultet to this, installed a fresh win10 and updatet to win 11:

[Tusk2435]

2 minutes ago, Starfy said:

In this screenshot, as you can see in the bottom left value, the paged pool is about 400MB. That is, from what I understand, all the data that is written in the pagefile.

[LogicalDrm]

Afterburner is not very reliable way to monitor pagefile usage, nor does it really matter. Afterburner totals ALL parts into same value and uses it as if it was pagefile alone. Thats why you see pagefile reading as 20gb and RAM at 12gb. In reality, you are, like said, only having around 500mb in pagefile. You can see same total value in that task manager pic, the middle row.

 

Pagefile is dedicated file on hardware which software use to store elements they need to access often, but not constantly. So stuff that could be stored in RAM instead of drive. It depends on software how much, if any, pagefile they need or use. You can't really do anything to that.

 

I would recommend that you set pagefile size by yourself. By default its about same as your RAM. But you most likely only need 4-8Gb of it.

[GoodBytes]

11 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

I would recommend that you set pagefile size by yourself. By default its about same as your RAM. But you most likely only need 4-8Gb of it.

If one has the drive space, then it is best to leave Windows do it's think, in my opinion.