I’m having trouble with the size of the pagefile.sys file that Windows is managing. I have read a few things about Windows 8 having pagefile issues. I’m not sure if that’s what I have.
One of my systems has an i5 4460 processor with 8g Ram running Window 8.1. The only thing this system does is run some monitoring software. In Task Manager my CPU runs at about 12-20%. My memory use is a flat 40% all of the time – it NEVER changes. The monitoring software does generate a fair amount of disk activity – fluctuates between 40%-60% most of the time EXCEPT when the pagefile suddenly kicks in (with NO change in memory use), at which time it goes to 100% use for 15-20 minutes before coming back down. During this time the monitoring software slows down significantly.
Any thoughts on how I solve this problem? I am hoping I could do something like disable the pagefile or maybe move it to a USB drive. I wanted to try to not to avoid buying more memory because I was planning on going to a new machine in about a year, but if that’s what’s REALLY needed…
Thoughts?
One of my systems has an i5 4460 processor with 8g Ram running Window 8.1. The only thing this system does is run some monitoring software. In Task Manager my CPU runs at about 12-20%. My memory use is a flat 40% all of the time – it NEVER changes. The monitoring software does generate a fair amount of disk activity – fluctuates between 40%-60% most of the time EXCEPT when the pagefile suddenly kicks in (with NO change in memory use), at which time it goes to 100% use for 15-20 minutes before coming back down. During this time the monitoring software slows down significantly.
Any thoughts on how I solve this problem? I am hoping I could do something like disable the pagefile or maybe move it to a USB drive. I wanted to try to not to avoid buying more memory because I was planning on going to a new machine in about a year, but if that’s what’s REALLY needed…
Thoughts?
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