I am currently running Windows 8.1 Pro with 32GB of RAM with two internal storage devices (primary 240GB SSD + secondary 1TB HDD).
I had been using 1GB of page file (1024-1024 set manually) ever since Windows 7, page file being located in SSD.
Was in discussion about page file and somebody said I should still use 1.5 X RAM for page file size.
So basically I am looking for answer for two (maybe three) answers for my situation.
1. Size of page file for 32GB RAM
2. Location of page file
3(2.1?). Split page file - 1GB/minimum on primary & rest in secondary - a good idea?
Btw, can someone tell me how I can search in the forum. I can't find it...
With that much ram, a pagefile is useless.
It's also very bad to put one on a ssd because of the extra reads/writes.
The reason why I am still using page file is
1. Windows crash report requires minimum 400MB of page file on primary storage device
2. Some programs refuse to run properly without page file
Of course, I am not 100% sure since I only have looked into this a LONG~~~ time ago and just stuck with it without much questioning. So, if I am having wrong assumption of something, correct me.
Anyway, from the way your reply comes through, I suppose 1.5 X RAM is just useless. Right?
Actually, I forgot about the points that you made. If i were you, I would keep your 1GB Pagefile, and move it to your HDD.
Personally, I keep mine disabled, and have not run into any problems. But you definitely do not need 48GBs of pagefile.
Would moving to secondary HDD affect windows crash report? I barely remember it saying that it needs to be on primary (OS boot drive) for it to work.
I used to keep mine disabled, and never really had any problems. But after some research I decided to enable a small page file on a secondary HDD
16GB RAM 1-2GB page file
old but useful article
Alright, basically I guess I should just move my page file to my secondary device and change from 1GB static to 1 min 2 max.
That's the gist of it I believe. Oh, and on a Microsoft page I read if you are decreasing virtual memory size, thad require a restart. Not if increasing though
i use 32 gb on my setup and I do use a page file on my ssd its custom size of 200-2000mb. it never uses much more than 200mb. I have used no page file before and have also used it on an HDD. One of th e reasons i stopped doing this is because my hdds are storage and I want them to sleep when the pagefile is on them they always stay awake. This setup has had the least issues and the most performance. The SSD p/e fears are not warranted imho but I understand the opinions of others about this subject and respect them. The drives I use are samsung evo 840 120gb drives and to use all the p/e cycles I would have to write around 200-300TB to the drive. i dont see myself doing that in the timespan I will have the drive for since upgrading would happen by then as well as price dropping. SSD drives currently are estimated to run 10-50+ years before dying from normal usage. If you look at hdd drive failure data 6 years give you an estimated 50% failure rate.if you have 100 drives 50 of them will make the 6 year mark during heavy usage. I change storage HDD drives every 3 years and will probably change my ssd sooner due to performance increases from r and d. Hope this helps.
I use to keep my page file equal to my RAM, but now that i have more then 8 GB of RAM i have moved to it being half the size. Before SSDs i had my page file on a second HDD. But now with SSDs just keep it on the main drive.
At least in linux it makes sense to always have a few gigs of swap (=page file) because the kernel notices idle processes and moves them from the RAM to the swap to make more space for applications which really want to use the RAM.
But then again it's windows that you're dealing with…