How Big Is Your Pagefile?

[DWk]

Hmmm my pagefile is 786,432KB

What size is yours? Any idea if mine is too big?

[shn]

Originally posted by DWk@21 January 2004 - 19:26
Hmmm my pagefile is 786,432KB

What size is yours? Any idea if mine is too big?

Depends on the amount of ram you have.


Sorry about the double post.

[tesco]

mine is 300mb because i find that it never gets fully used and i can free more space on my hard drive...

i beleive that soon enough we will have enough ram to just disable the pagefile altogether then windows can run faster.

[DWk]

I got 512DDR... what do you mean?

[fkdup74]

i set mine at i gig (1024 MB), but never seen it above 175 megs or so (usage)

but then i dont watch it all the time either



holy feck! you mean thats the size of the file?

[clocker]

I don't have a pagefile.

[foot loose]

if u don't have a page file dosent it mess up ur virtual memory???

[shn]

Originally posted by foot loose@21 January 2004 - 20:10
if u don't have a page file dosent it mess up ur virtual memory???

Their the same thing, in a sense. A page file is virtual memory.

Non-physical memory is virtual memory, and it's used by using a piece of your hard disk that's set up to emulate physical memory. This hard disk storage is a single section on the hard drive called a page or swap file.

[tesco]

no it doesnt mess anything up, as long as you have enough free ram then you dont need one at all and can get a big performance boost.

[shn]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@21 January 2004 - 20:16
no it doesnt mess anything up, as long as you have enough free ram then you dont need one at all and can get a big performance boost.

On the contrary its best to have one. Not having one and not having enough memory can cause invalid page fault errors among other things.