Should you disable pagefile on a high-RAM system?


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jbaldachino

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I've read a lot of conflicting views on disabling pagefile.

I will be running 8gbs of DDR2-1066 RAM on a 64bit Vista system. Mainly for gaming but also a lot of multitasking (songbird + game + browsers, for instance).

I have a 1 tb hd plus a couple externals, so hard drive space is not an issue.

I was initially planning on setting up a pagefile partition of maybe 24 gigs and fixing the pagefile size to fill most of that partition.

However, I have read many people stating loading screens in particular move much faster with the pagefile disabled as long as you have enough RAM (at 8 gb, I feel safe there for now).

What are your thoughts?