pagefile size for 8gb RAM

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I upgraded my Vista Ultimate X64 to 8gb RAM. Windows suggests my pagefile be
set to 12288. I always set min-max to the same size. I'm trying it with no
page file at the moment butI'm unsure if that's wise. Any suggestions would
be appreciated. It's still accessing my 4gb ReadyBoost. I thought with that
much RAM Readyboost was useless.
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Sam
 
Re: pagefile size for 8gb RAM

There are some processes that require a pagefile. I suggest you simply let
the system determine the pagefile size. With 8GB of ram the pagefile is not
going to heavily used in any case. As for ReadyBoost, I let my 8GB Vista
Ultimate x64 use it all it wants to. The pagefile manager in Vista and XP
is much more sophisticated than it was back in the days of Win9x/ME and you
can easily afford to let it do things its own way.

"Sam Steinhauser" <SamSteinhauser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A275E19E-4E6C-4323-8CA9-4B6FB9AC6475@microsoft.com...
>I upgraded my Vista Ultimate X64 to 8gb RAM. Windows suggests my pagefile
>be
> set to 12288. I always set min-max to the same size. I'm trying it with no
> page file at the moment butI'm unsure if that's wise. Any suggestions
> would
> be appreciated. It's still accessing my 4gb ReadyBoost. I thought with
> that
> much RAM Readyboost was useless.
> --
> Sam
 
Re: pagefile size for 8gb RAM

Thanks for te info. I have a 4gb ReadyBoost drive. I read somewhere te
ReadyBoost should match the system RAM. With this much RAM I shouldn't need
to get a bigger ReadyBoost drive should I? I did what ypu suggested and it
chose 8489mb pagefile. Weird number. I like to lock my pagefile so iWindow
isn't resizing it all the time so I set it to that number.

Thanks again,
--
Sam


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> There are some processes that require a pagefile. I suggest you simply let
> the system determine the pagefile size. With 8GB of ram the pagefile is not
> going to heavily used in any case. As for ReadyBoost, I let my 8GB Vista
> Ultimate x64 use it all it wants to. The pagefile manager in Vista and XP
> is much more sophisticated than it was back in the days of Win9x/ME and you
> can easily afford to let it do things its own way.
>
> "Sam Steinhauser" <SamSteinhauser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:A275E19E-4E6C-4323-8CA9-4B6FB9AC6475@microsoft.com...
> >I upgraded my Vista Ultimate X64 to 8gb RAM. Windows suggests my pagefile
> >be
> > set to 12288. I always set min-max to the same size. I'm trying it with no
> > page file at the moment butI'm unsure if that's wise. Any suggestions
> > would
> > be appreciated. It's still accessing my 4gb ReadyBoost. I thought with
> > that
> > much RAM Readyboost was useless.
> > --
> > Sam
>
 
Re: pagefile size for 8gb RAM

Windows won't resize the pagefile all the time. It will only do it if it
really needs to, which should be very seldom.

I use a 16GB Xplorer flash drive so I don't know if you should get a
different unit. I know that ReadyBoost set aside 4GB of the Xplorer
automatically even though I have more ram that that.

"Sam Steinhauser" <SamSteinhauser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:8994810E-8F77-4ABF-A217-F45B550A3B6D@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for te info. I have a 4gb ReadyBoost drive. I read somewhere te
> ReadyBoost should match the system RAM. With this much RAM I shouldn't
> need
> to get a bigger ReadyBoost drive should I? I did what ypu suggested and it
> chose 8489mb pagefile. Weird number. I like to lock my pagefile so iWindow
> isn't resizing it all the time so I set it to that number.
>
> Thanks again,
> --
> Sam
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
>> There are some processes that require a pagefile. I suggest you simply
>> let
>> the system determine the pagefile size. With 8GB of ram the pagefile is
>> not
>> going to heavily used in any case. As for ReadyBoost, I let my 8GB Vista
>> Ultimate x64 use it all it wants to. The pagefile manager in Vista and
>> XP
>> is much more sophisticated than it was back in the days of Win9x/ME and
>> you
>> can easily afford to let it do things its own way.
>>
>> "Sam Steinhauser" <SamSteinhauser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:A275E19E-4E6C-4323-8CA9-4B6FB9AC6475@microsoft.com...
>> >I upgraded my Vista Ultimate X64 to 8gb RAM. Windows suggests my
>> >pagefile
>> >be
>> > set to 12288. I always set min-max to the same size. I'm trying it with
>> > no
>> > page file at the moment butI'm unsure if that's wise. Any suggestions
>> > would
>> > be appreciated. It's still accessing my 4gb ReadyBoost. I thought with
>> > that
>> > much RAM Readyboost was useless.
>> > --
>> > Sam
>>
 
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