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John6528 Max Output Level: -82 dBFS Total Posts : 409 Joined: 1/19/2008 Status: offline December 01, 13 6:46 PM (permalink) no pagefile I have 12g ram and never notice using more than 6. A few months ago I disabled the pagefile completely for a "test" and then forgot about it. I have not encountered any problems at all. Wondered if anyone else has tried this or... what disaster might await me. John Sonar 8.5 64, Win 7 64 Asrock X58 Extreme3, I7-950, 12G ram OCZ Vertx3 120, Vertex2 90, WDM 1T Focusrite Saffire Yamaha P-70 Keyboard M-Audio Midisport Uno Miroslav Philharmonik , Nanosynth #1 1 Reply Related Threads
slartabartfast Max Output Level: -22.5 dBFS Total Posts : 5289 Joined: 10/30/2005 Status: offline Re: no pagefile December 02, 13 1:53 PM (permalink) You may well not run into any problem if you confine yourself to programs that play well without a page file. It is hard to imagine you are going to go over 12 gig of memory with a couple of programs open, so maybe the system will not crash. On the other hand, if you are not exhausting your physical memory, it is hard to see why having a page file available to Windows will reduce your performance. And if there is no noticeable improvement in performance, why would you muck about with a system Windows or an application is expecting to be available? One clear example of a problem is the ability to capture a crash dump. The page file usually holds the current state of the system, which permits that information to be recovered in the event of a system crash. http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it post edited by slartabartfast - December 02, 13 1:55 PM #2

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John6528

Max Output Level: -82 dBFS

Total Posts : 409
Joined: 1/19/2008
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December 01, 13 6:46 PM (permalink)

no pagefile

I have 12g ram and never notice using more than 6. A few months ago I disabled the pagefile completely for a "test" and then forgot about it. I have not encountered any problems at all. Wondered if anyone else has tried this or... what disaster might await me.

John

Sonar 8.5 64, Win 7 64
Asrock X58 Extreme3, I7-950, 12G ram
OCZ Vertx3 120, Vertex2 90, WDM 1T
Focusrite Saffire
Yamaha P-70 Keyboard
M-Audio Midisport Uno
Miroslav Philharmonik , Nanosynth

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slartabartfast

Max Output Level: -22.5 dBFS

Total Posts : 5289
Joined: 10/30/2005
Status: offline

Re: no pagefile December 02, 13 1:53 PM (permalink)

You may well not run into any problem if you confine yourself to programs that play well without a page file. It is hard to imagine you are going to go over 12 gig of memory with a couple of programs open, so maybe the system will not crash. On the other hand, if you are not exhausting your physical memory, it is hard to see why having a page file available to Windows will reduce your performance. And if there is no noticeable improvement in performance, why would you muck about with a system Windows or an application is expecting to be available?

One clear example of a problem is the ability to capture a crash dump. The page file usually holds the current state of the system, which permits that information to be recovered in the event of a system crash.

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

post edited by slartabartfast - December 02, 13 1:55 PM

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