>>61753776
It's ancient tech, but then again is so little space that I just ignore it.
If you're not doing any important tasks, sure
If you run out of memory you don't get any convenient warning about low memory though. Your application will just crash resulting in loss of data.
>>61753776
I had it disabled until Windows crashed because of low memory.
>>61753776
I have 40gb of ram. I dont need a fucking page file.
Some times I wet up the fucking ram to act as a haddrive just so I dont have to deal with bullshit speeds.
>>61756050
>It's ancient tech, but then again is so little space that I just ignore it.
This guy gets it.
>>61756163
>If you run out of memory
1980 is calling
>>61756194
Even 16GB of ram is too low to be disabling pagefiling. Clearly you do not do anything intensive or important. Windows at idle will consume around 4GB RAM half of which it normally puts into swap.
Disabling pagefiling has no affect on performance and it's laughable anybody suggests it.
You *probably* don't need more than like a 1GB swap area. When you run low on memory the OS will push idle tasks into the swap area to free up memory. With memory being as huge as it is these days it probably doesn't happen much but in the unlikely event than you do need it you still have a ~1GB buffer to prevent the OS or OOM errors from immediately terminating several applications.
>>61756241
>Disabling pagefiling has no affect on performance and it's laughable anybody suggests it.
An overwhelming % of suggestions """gamers""" get on how to increase performance is such cancer. Could make an entire encyclopedia on the bad advice they take.
>>61753776
I've been running without a page file for 2 years and nothings happened.
>>61756050
doesn't windows use it all the time though, even when it's not necessary?
>>61753776
it's called swap fuckface
i bet you call every cotton swab a q-tip
No. Programs reserve more memory than they actually use. The memory committed to them has to be allocated somewhere. Without a page file it has to be in RAM. This means you can crash from running out of commit long before you run out of free RAM. The pagefile frees your RAM to actually be used for data and not have half of it be taken up with locked addresses.
This is where the "set your pagefile to the same size as your RAM " came from. Having more RAM doesn't mean you need less of a pagefile -- if you bought that much RAM it's probably because you use it, and if you use it your commit is going to be proportionally larger.
>>61753776
The 'OK' should be in small case in windows.
>>61756241
I do virtualization on linux. I dont have a swap partition, and everything gets assigned a set amount of ram, it cant go over. The host itself uses less than 1 gb
You just need to learn to manage your ram, back when I was running only 8gb I hit the limit a few times, not fun.
>16 is too low
Good thing Im using over twice that.
btw, I clearly did not advise normalfags to disable their page file.