pagefile size for 8gb RAM

[Guest Sam Steinhauser]

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

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

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

[Guest Sam Steinhauser]

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

>

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

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

>>