I was having a look in WinDirStat (GNU GPL) a graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows.
I noticed that my pagefile.sys + hiberfil.sys take up a collosal 17.5% (12Gb + 9Gb) of my 120Gb SSD as I have 12Gb of RAM.
I realise the default pagefile space is = n RAM. But my question is matching the system memory and the virtual memory really neccessary, especally for modern high end systems with 10+ Gb of RAM?
My hardware: Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD7 CPU: Intel i7 920 (d0) @ 4.0ghz GPU: Asus HD6950 2gb (With HD6970 firmware on it) Ram: 6x2GB tri channel Kingston DDR3 1600MHz HyperX SSD: OCZ 120GB PCI-e Revo Drive
turn off pagefiling ASAP. it is pointless if you have 8gb or above RAM imo. however, it depends on what you do on your machine. if you do super heavy video editing , then keep it on but if you're just for instance gaming then turn it off.
I dont mess with the pagefile settings and just let Windows do it's thing. I have 12GB of RAM with a 256GB SSD so I just suck it up and sacrifice 12GB of SSD space.
I'm with flazza. Do not turn it off, but you definitely dont need as much as ur RAM. I've set it to 2GB, only because my 8GB RAM gets too small once I start workin with Premiere and Photoshop at the same time.