Do you use the Paging File ? Why yes, why no ?

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Do you use the Paging File ? Why yes, why no ?

  1. Yes

    41 vote(s)
    78.8%
  2. No

    11 vote(s)
    21.2%
  1. blacknight

    blacknight Registered Member

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    The same for me :thumb:
     
  2. Mr.X

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    Alright, then I can infer that even though I have plenty of RAM, say 12GB which it's my case, I better set a mini page to have piece of mind confident no BSODs are likely to pop up. Ok I can do that, thanks.
     
  3. zapjb

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    Yup. I have 16GB RAM & set the pagefile at 800MB. 800MB is lowest standard recommended size at least on W7.
     
  4. syrinx

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    I actually wasn't trying to say anything of the sort. If you don't have any issues without a pagefile, I say go for it! If you suddenly have a random BSOD at boot (this happened maybe once per few weeks on my end) after not using one, try adding a small one and see if it still happens is all. I'd prefer not to have one...just in my case, for whatever reason, it seems to be the better solution to at least keep a small one. I have a system w 16GB's of RAM so I'm sure that it was never full 'at boot' especially with my tendency to remove and disable unneeded startup entries/services etc...so I tried it, it worked and I've stuck with it.
     
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  5. Mr.X

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    syrinx I got it, it's okay, in fact my machine is working just fine. The only thing still have to test is running one vm on VMware... I'll do it later today.
     
  6. luciddream

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    It didn't happen to me in a matter of hours, but over several days I'd notice it. Less so if you set the minimum & maximum to the same figure... that being whatever is "Recommended", which will be roughly 1.5X the amount of physical RAM.

    I've also seen emulators not work at all, or freeze. I have one in particular that won't run without a pagefile. So I use one.

    And I did make a point to sit there and wait after I shut down my computer , and I think it did take 10 seconds or so longer with that GP edit to wipe the virtual pagefile at shutdown. I still consider it a worthwhile tradeoff. I think most of the time is TrueCrypt volumes unmounting and Comodo disengaging.
     
  7. niki

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    While I have a total of 10 GB memory on my PC and is plenty because no games are being played, I still leave the pagefile at its default.
     
  8. NGRhodes

    NGRhodes Registered Member

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    Defaults, if machine pages enough to make a measure-able performance loss its time to upgrade IMHO.
     
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