Win10 Pagefile

[mitchpman13]

I've been reading around that windows 10 doesn't use the pagefile.sys anymore, and uses just straight memory. When using Spacesniffer, I still find my pagefile.sys in the drive. I'm still using a 64gb ssd, so the extra space would be nice. I have 16gb ram in my system and wasn't sure if I could just delete the pagefile and still run just fine or not.

[Litargirio]

You can disable it, but if you ever happen to run out of RAM, all running programs will start crashing. If you have another drive, you can change its location though. If not, you can reduce its size. There's plenty of tutorials out there, just google it.

[Guest]

Some games need the page file (like GTA V), so I wouldn't turn it off.

[GoodBytes]

I've been reading around that windows 10 doesn't use the pagefile.sys anymore, and uses just straight memory. When using Spacesniffer, I still find my pagefile.sys in the drive. I'm still using a 64gb ssd, so the extra space would be nice. I have 16gb ram in my system and wasn't sure if I could just delete the pagefile and still run just fine or not.

Since Vista, Windows doesn't not use the pagefile until you are low in memory, or needs to defrag open space on RAM (memory of a process is never fragmented. It stays in block, so you can have 5GB free, but can't run a program that consumes 500MB, because your RAM is fragmented to a point where there is no 1 block of 500MB free anywhere, despite making up 5GB of free space all together. The OS needs to flush the RAM and copy the pagefile to your RAM all in a nice organized matter, giving you a big junk of 5GB free, for your 500MB program to now be able to use).

Some memory intensive process, can overflow it's process limit or shared memory space limit and despite RAM availability it will use the page file.