Custom Page-filing to SSD Questions???

jkteddy77

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I have always had my PC set to automatically manage my pagefile. It knows how little and how much I need to keep my system stable, and it is constantly resizing it so that there are no unecessary writes.

First off, some will say take it off altogether or put it on your HDD, but?I prefer speed for a 7th year of SSD life instead of 6 years...

My only concern here is this is what Windows decides my pagefile should be:

minimum allowed: 16mb
maximum allowed: 1912mb
Currently Allocated: 8192mb

Why is my currently allocated page-file as large as my physical RAM when it recommends 1912mb. I'm not sure if I should leave it taking up 8gb of space

Was going to set a custom pagefile of 16mb min and 2gb max, but I get the warning that there will be no recovery functions if the pagefile is ever under 400mb. Also not crazy about splitting my pagefile up. 2gb on SSD and 4-6gb on HDD would sound okay, but pagefile performance would be slower with shared pagefiles between the faster SSD and slower HDD.

So, do I want to set the pagefile to 400mb/2-3gb and always have a larger minimum being written to, and the possibility of needing more than 2-3gb of allocated maximum, or let windows use the least amount of needed writes well optimized, but let it take up 8gb of space and possibly write large amounts of data at times?

Nearly all times I've attempted a custom pagefile, I've always received odd side-effects and hiccups.
Any suggestions here?
 

jasonkaler

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Page files are often anything between the size of your ram, up to about twice that.
If you want a small page file on your ssd, then go ahead and do that, giving it a fixed size, and also put a system managed page file on your hdd. You can have multiple files.
 

jkteddy77

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Yes, but with page files spread across multiple drives, the page file performance is bottled to the slowest drive, being that of the HDD.
In that case, leaving all 8gb on the SSD would be the best performance-wise decision. I'm only slightly worried about the extra space taken, but I do wonder how often windows is writing several gibabytes of page file data to my SSD with such a large amount of allocated space.
 
page file should indeed be a min. of 400 MB and a max of 3 GB. It's ok to go ahead and put that on the SSD. People recommending that you put it on the HDD are using old advice from when SSDs didn't have as many writes before they died. Modern SSDs are more than capable to handle the extra wear and then some.