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> if the page file is disabled Ouch. Never run Windows without the swap. It can be as small as the system allows (AFAIR 16Mb for Win7), but it should be enabl

> if the page file is disabled Ouch. Never run Windows without the swap. It can be as small as the system allows (AFAIR 16Mb for Win7), but it should be enabled. While this is the obvious footgun the problem is nobody ever tests with the swap disabled. I've seen very weird behaviour without the swap, the most funny one was when some 3D game (sadly don't remember the name) internal timer went completely nuts without the swap and game was working just fine with the swap enabled.

kasabali 5y ago
That's a good point, and I was actually running with 16MB page file at that time (and my reasoning for that was exactly like yours). So unfortunately it's nowhere enough. Funny thing is I clearly remember Windows 7/8.1 showing a warning about memory running low and then killing Firefox. On Windows 10 they managed to bork that, too.