Couple Swapfile questions
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locke89




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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Aug 2013 16:41    Post subject: Couple Swapfile questions
1. Is it worth keepeing swapfile with 8GB RAM and SSD?
2. Is there any direct downside of NOT having swapfile?
3. If I moved my swap file from C: to some other drive, it's confirmed in the swapfile managment window (show there is no swap activated on CSmile but there is still physical swapfile on my C: taking 8GB of space - can I safely delete it?
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BearishSun




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PostPosted: Fri, 30th Aug 2013 17:49    Post subject:
Without swap file applications will crash once you run out of physical memory. That is the main downside. So it depends what you do on your PC and how often do you plan on going over 8GB. I'm running fine without one with 16GB.

After moving the swap file you need to restart, then the one on C should disappear. OS is currently using that one.
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tolanri




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2013 13:06    Post subject:
I like to set my pagefile size to 512 Minimum and half of my RAM (4096 as maximum). I used to run it disabled, but some applications would fail to start on systems with disabled pagefile (although they could be started with few tweaks) one example is Warhammer Dawn of War (don't remember which exactly).

Another downside is that memory dump after system crash is not available if the pagefile is smaller than 400MB (or so) - hence why my minimum is 512MB. Although I rarely, if even encounter system crash I find it convenient to be able to examine the dump and find out what caused it/what happened.

And finally there's issue BearishSun brought up if you even run out of your phyisical memory, apps will crash. This can sometimes happen if application have some kind of memory leak, or you start many virtual machines at once and forget about your RAM...

So, I find it doesn't really hurt to set pagefile at 512MB minimum. It won't grow unless more is needed.


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scaramonga




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2013 16:16    Post subject:
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