Paging file

[Cookiemonstahr]

Currently it's set to system controlled but I have 32gb ram and page file eats 32gb off of my SSD. Can I reduce paging file to 16384 (half) without system instability issues / app crashes or should I let windows control it?

[Wombo]

Currently it's set to system controlled but I have 32gb ram and page file eats 32gb off of my SSD. Can I reduce paging file to 16384 (half) without system instability issues / app crashes or should I let windows control it?

The page file is used to offload files if the ram is full, to suspend programs, and for use with hibernation. It can be made smaller if you want to but you may see performance issues and you may not be able to hibernate your PC.

[airdeano]

how much physical RAM do you have?

 

if not using sleep/hibernate and SSD:

3072 for 16GB

4096 for 8GB

[GoodBytes]

hibernation doesn't use pagefile, it uses hibernate.sys

Sleep doesn't use any files from the system. When the system is at sleep, the RAM is still powered, and doesn't need to be stored anywhere.

[jagdtigger]

@Cookiemonstahr

Thats a lot of RAM you have there... Just switch it off completely, im using my PC for years without it and never had issues.

[Cookiemonstahr]

how much physical RAM do you have?

 

if not using sleep/hibernate and SSD:

3072 for 16GB

4096 for 8GB

 

As I siad I have 32gb physical ram. (4x8gb modules)

[Cookiemonstahr]

@Cookiemonstahr

Thats a lot of RAM you have there... Just switch it off completely, im using my PC for years without it and never had issues.

 

But some programs rely on it, no?

[airdeano]

then a 3072MB pagefile will dramatically revive some space on the SSD.

 

i've been running pagefile-less for years and with no ill effects in gaming or

productivity. win7 and 16GB RAM w/SSD.

[Blake]

But some programs rely on it, no?

not really. Windows(or OS of Choice) manages the paging to disk, applications just ask for memory, and windows does the shuffling bettween disk and ram as needed.

 

Depending on what you do you could reduce or remove the pagefile from the c:\. If you running a large database or a few VM's i'd keep the pagefile as they can cause you to run out of system resources quite quickly. 

[LogicalDrm]

You could just move majority of pagefile to HDD if you have such. But leave small, maybe 512mb file to SSD in case something fail on boot.

[Brian_Wee]

then a 3072MB pagefile will dramatically revive some space on the SSD.

 

i've been running pagefile-less for years and with no ill effects in gaming or

productivity. win7 and 16GB RAM w/SSD.

 

Most games run on RAM not pagefile so 8gb ram n ssd should pretty much cover everything