PCI Express SSD & Paging file

[d3veg]

Hey just wondering if anybody out there running super high speed pcie SSDs are seeing improvements in paging file speeds.

 

I hit my mobo limit for RAM and am running an SSD. Moving from HDD to SSD helped with system choking during page swaps. I am wondering if either a dedicated SSD or pcie SSD would help with this.

 

The system is a mobile mini-ITX editing system loaded with 16 GB or ram

[Blebekblebek]

paging file only created temporary process data before it goes through RAM

you can disable or decrease it to save space, or move the pagefile to another drive instead SSD.

[d3veg]

right, its in temporary holding until it can jump to ram. I'm just wondering if the jumping around is noticably faster. Like I read on another thread which was unsolved, a person asking if a 4GB macbook air was acceptable to use for light photoshoping because OSXs has RAM compression and mac laptops have PCIe SSDs. But thats the closest I could find to an inquiry about storage speed and its effect on the swap file

[Blebekblebek]

paging file discussion is a dead end.

it's been suggested since VISTA is out.

remember ReadyBoost? same thing, however you want to do it with SSD instead.

 

anyway, it's only creating maximum size of your physical RAM, if you need more ram you should get more RAM, editing as far as I know will use any amount of RAM available.

I understand that you hit the hardware limit.

 

but maybe you are confused between caching and paging file because paging file doesn't do anything to boost your performance if you already hit the limit, and caching process only affect for storage purpose not editing.

[d3veg]

Thank you for this information

[d3veg]

I went here to educate my unknowing ways
http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it