Hello, Mine is pretty much system default as I have 8 gig ram and 8 gig pagefile fixed. The non-default is I locate my pagefile on a different hard drive from my system drive on a 16 gig partition by itself. I have tons of hard drive space so the size does not matter to me. I also have my system tweaked to use ram for pagefile as much as possible.
Microsoft is limited. They have to create software that works on as many computers as possible. There are some users with uncommon situations though.
Yours is probably being handled by the system. I think you are in XP, navigate to your pagefile settings and see what you have. Control panel>System>Advanced>Performance>Settings>Advanced>Virtual memory>Change. There you ll see how you have yours. I don't think is worth messing with it. You can also get to the settings by right clicking on "My computer". Bo
Because I have 12 GB RAM Because I have SSD I just keep the 1 GB pagefile for those rare programs that look for a pagefile, either way, that 1 GB just sits there doing nothing The only reason Microsoft sets your swap file to the size of your RAM is in the rare case that you have a system crash, it could dump a snapshot into the pagefile but that cant really help a normal user other than system developers who want to run in depth investigation of what went out, totally useless for the general user and not takes unneccessary space on an SSD
LOL I tried to make my netbook atom go faster then you guys with quad cores but then reality sets in.
1531 MB... both min & max. 1 GB physical RAM. XP Pro SP3. I go with the old "rule of thumb" 1.5X physical ram size. I noticed 1531 was the "recommended" size, so I just went with that... close enough. Though I agree with Hungry Man that on newer OS's and with tons of physical ram, the need for it is, well... not a need at all. But it can provide some benefit for people like myself. I've come to find that setting the max to the same as the initial size seems to work better. If I set the max size larger I notice that as days go by my system gets slower, until a shutdown (I have a Local Policy tweak to clear my pagefile at shutdown). It doesn't crawl or anything like that. It's very subtle, but it's definitely there.
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! Back in the days where 512MB / 1 GB of RAM was the more common size of RAM to the average people, I used to stick to that rule as well 1.5x the amount of RAM But as you said with the increase of the average installed RAM size in a system, this has now changed I am thinking of just disabling my Pagefile after reading this pool by the way
I meant to say that both the "initial" and max are the same thing... 1531 MB... which is what's "recommended". The minimum allowed is listed as 2 MB. lol. A lot of good that would do. ^ 16 gigs of physical RAM... WOW! ^ yeah, I'd say you have no need for a pagefile.
1G RAM, recently upgraded from 256M. I've always used a custom setting for the page file, typically 1.5xRAM for the minimum and double that for the max. Back when I has less RAM, I had min. set at 384M but certain operations, particularly MS Update, would bump that up to around 560. Following my upgrade to 1G, I've set min to 560M and max to 1024M (main drive partition is 35G, typically around 60-65 pct free space, so space isn't a problem). And when I boot-defrag with Puran, it's never shown any fragmentation of the page file, so I could probably just fix it at 560.
Maybe because MS told you to do so when you were on XP? http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...vancd_perform_change_vmpagefile.mspx?mfr=true
Well i actually Googl'ed around for a while to see what was the recommended Page File Size. At the end i decided to set it to 1.5x my RAM just to see if there were any improvements, i still haven't noticed any improvement but since i have more space than i needed i just decided to leave it like that.
