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Originally Posted by Bender
pretty sure MS suggest 1.5x the RAM you have. personally, I set mine to 1Gb pagefile, as I'd rather it use as much RAM first. You'll be surprised how much pageing the OS will do even with copious amounts of free RAM when it doesn't need to.
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TBH, it depends where on the MS sites you look! I've found some articles saying 1.5x, and others saying 2x. I work on the basis of 'more than I have actual ram', and of a fixed size, and Windows is usually happy.
That being said, with 2GB of RAM I generally set it to 2GB still (so within the 32-bit limit). If it's on 64-bit, you can go with double, or as I've done here, I've got 4GB ram, so set the swap to 4GB.
Whilst you can disable it entirely (and I did for some time), I think it doesn't hurt to leave it on, as Windows is designed to swap things out to disk; Vista less so, it likes to hold onto stuff in RAM as much as possible.
Swap file optimisation is a whole can of worms in itself. If I can find the articles, I'll post them up.