8191mb for a page file? recommendations

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Win7 is managing my page file. I have 8g of RAM. My usage with this machine is just basic; email, multiple tab browsing, ripping media, view large AVCHD files from secondary HDD, posting on Anandtech.. nothing too resource hogging. Can I use less than the managed page file, say maybe half? What do you recommend? I'm NOT turning off the pagefile btw, so lets not get into that debate.

Thanks

 

[Nothinman]

Why does it matter? Are you that strapped for space?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Nm, i set it to 4000mb. Thanks

 

[Nothinman]

The only way to know what a good base is to get a performance baseline during normal and peak usages and then you'll have an idea what the range of your normal commit charge would be.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

1/11 is the current commit charge using 4000mb

 

[Emulex]

view large AVCHD files from secondary HDD

if the file exceeds your free space minus operating system minimum you may have an app that tries to open the entire file -


10gb file, 8gb ram, 2gb freespace = out of ram (didn't take into consideration os and other running apps).

sometimes it is easier to open the entire file and let virtual memory sort it out - apps like photoshop liked to rock their own swap/memory page files back in the 32bit days.

 

[hanspeter]

10gb file, 8gb ram, 2gb freespace = out of ram (didn't take into consideration os and other running apps).

sometimes it is easier to open the entire file and let virtual memory sort it out - apps like photoshop liked to rock their own swap/memory page files back in the 32bit days.

To memory map a 10GB file (all of it) doesn't mean it will take up 10GB physical ram.