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Originally Posted by keyholder
Anything over 4gb of ram and i dont even use a page file, even in win xp with only 3.5 ram reconised i still dont use one.
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The recommended page file usage is more historical than anything these days. it was really for when machines only had 32Mb RAM, etc. though it can still cause major issues if the machine crashes and you don't have a paging area, but I think the risk is small these days.
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Originally Posted by KingDaveRa
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.
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definitely agree with setting the upped and lower limits the same. I don't like the idea of windows deciding, even if it's within a range. wasted space on modern machines!!!