Windows 10: Committed vs Physical Memory Issues

[N3rot0xin]

Recently ive been getting a lot of pop ups for low-memory/virtual memory when playing any games. Has not been an issue until this past week or two. Nothing about my system physically changed. all my ram is still there blah blah blah. 

Looked into the virtual memory file. I run my task manager when playing games and whenever i get low memory, this is what task manager looks like: 

 

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One thing i cant get my head around is why windows is using ANY virtual memory when my ram is not being used? ive disabled my pagefile all together, as i dont think setting it to 4gb and having 11gb of committed memory is a fix. I've played around with it, and ti doesn't matter how high i set a pagefile, committed memory eventually uses all of it. Another thing is that windows does not seem to be purging 'Cached' when committed memory is out, which i thought it did/ Again, i dont understand why i need virtual memory at all when my physical ram is not even used. Is this a memory leak or something? I dont think i should be even using that much committed memory, let alone get any errors about low memory.  Could someone explain physical vs virtual/committed and why windows will use slow ssd page file FOR MY GAMES over physical ram?

 

 

Edit: here is a snip of wow using more than triple physical memory in committed
 

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[Enderman]

is this a clean install or an upgrade?

 

and DO NOT disable the page file

turn it back on immediately

it should be set to 50% of your ram capacity

[N3rot0xin]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

is this a clean install or an upgrade?

 

and DO NOT disable the page file

turn it back on immediately

it should be set to 50% of your ram capacity

Clean. And why do i need 50% of my ram as a page file? if i had 32gb of ram you're saying I'd need 16gb pagefile. Isn't pagefile supposed to compensate for lack of physical ram? My physical ram is not even being maxed out, ever. But when i set a page file, no matter how large, it gets full. That doesn't seem right. 

[Enderman]

5 minutes ago, N3rot0xin said:

Clean. And why do i need 50% of my ram as a page file? if i had 32gb of ram you're saying I'd need 16gb pagefile. Isn't pagefile supposed to compensate for lack of physical ram? My physical ram is not even being maxed out, ever. But when i set a page file, no matter how large, it gets full. That doesn't seem right. 

page file stores unused data form your ram so that active programs can use your ram

if you disable page file you system will have nowhere to store that data and it will warn you that you are running out of memory

if something tries to use ram and everything is committed then your program/OS will crash

committed is different from "in use"

you need space for that too

and disabling the page file is horrible and causes a lot of risks to your system

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, N3rot0xin said:

 

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A os will put ran into pagefile when its not used. It better for the ram to be used as a chache than have it storing unused files. In linux you change how much it does this with the swappyness setting, I don't think this can be change in windows.