4 ms·
If you read my previous posts, the page file is far from the only reason I have a ram drive. Since I use it for lots of other things and I rarely use all of it,
by yareally 13y ago
If you read my previous posts, the page file is far from the only reason I have a ram drive. Since I use it for lots of other things and I rarely use all of it, I might as well put my page file there as well. I also have 24 GB of RAM so not overly worried about storage.
I regret mentioning the page file, because it always starts some sort of silly debate on any forum it's discussed (Google yields tons of results).
- mdpye 13y agoWindows does things like swap out applications which are minimised or not recently used to allow more space for disk cache. You're neatly defeating the point of swapping them out by keeping the page file in ram. You are still shuffling pages in ram in order to "swap" them though. The gp is correct. To achieve your goal, disable the page file. Having it on the ram drive entirely defeats its purpose; The ram backed page file won't help you in the case of memory exhaustion, and it doesn't allow the OS to put the ram to better use where it judges that possible. It's your machine and your perogative, but it is daft, and people are going to point that out.
- Dylan16807 13y agoDefeating it is a good thing. I don't want to waste time waiting for programs when I unminimize. And windows gets cranky without any swap at all. When I 'disable' swap I always set it to 20MB or something.