Paging file obsolete or still needed with 48gb of ram?

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scottfree1_01

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My old page file go to was a fixed file the same size as your ram on your fastest drive but with 48gb of ram. I'm thinking any more than enough to hold a mini dump is just a waste of a big chunk of my fastest disk space, or is windows still using the page file even with more ram than it could ever eat??
 
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For a 120GB OS drive, reduce that pagefile.
Turn off hibernation.
See what else is on...
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Still needed, a little bit.
I've had mine set at 1GB min/max for years. 16 and 32GB RAM.

How much RAM do you have?
 
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Well my page file is just set to system managed size so it uses what it needs to. You don't need pagefile anywhere near the size of the ram. I'm not sure whether or not you need the page file but better safe than sorry to just have it set to system managed. Unless your hard drives are really small you won't notice it.
 
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I usually don't worry about it, but I try and keep my os drive lean 50/60gb and just noticed OS bloat @ 120gb. Gotta llove MS, they love to f' wit there mnions. Re-enabling my recycle bin. trying to force there way in and essentailly perform a "os rape" by ingoring the fact I have windows update disabled, and a group policy set to disable updates.

But there it is again a hidden 15gb Windows.Bt folder attempting to force my baby in to performing acts of depravity with some random piece of code, that for all we know is an axe wieldind psyco, hell bent on replacing my rock solid setup with there "new and improved" blue screen of death..
 
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For a 120GB OS drive, reduce that pagefile.
Turn off hibernation.
See what else is on there.

This is why I strongly recommend a larger drive these days. 120GB is getting to be too small, unless you are really diligent.
 
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