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Best Pagefile Size For My System?

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Shadow Conception

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What would be the best? I have a P4 3.0GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GBB HDD, and a 256MB Radeon 9250.

What would be the best initial size, and maximum size?
 
Best to let windows handle it but I did set up a seperate partition for a page file.

My boot drive is a 74gb raptor. I set 20gb aside for the OS, partitioned 5gb for a page fie and then partitioned the rest for my games.

The page file partion is set to 4092mb and 4092 max IIRC which is basically useless as somehow i still get a pagefile, or at least "non moveable" fragments on my C: drive.

So, in conclusion, next time I format I will give windows 25gb and just let it do its thing.

I give the OS that size because I put any little program, from setpoint drivers to cpu-z to antivir on the OS drive.

Anyway, you'll surely get plenty of opinions on how do do this, this is just IMO.
 
We have similar systems - P4, 3 GHz, 1 GB, 120 GB HDD, Radeon 9700 Pro/128.

I have never had a problem with my pagefile - I put it on a separate partition so it doesn't interfere with other things and cause fragmentation I keep it set at 25 GB max and min. It is rock stable.

Agree with Skooma - there are as many opinions as replies. This has worked for me for the past 10 years starting with Win95.
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
We have similar systems - P4, 3 GHz, 1 GB, 120 GB HDD, Radeon 9700 Pro/128.

I have never had a problem with my pagefile - I put it on a separate partition so it doesn't interfere with other things and cause fragmentation I keep it set at 25 GB max and min. It is rock stable.

Agree with Skooma - there are as many opinions as replies. This has worked for me for the past 10 years starting with Win95.
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25 GB?? I thought usually your pagefile was supposed to be 1.5 your ram size.
 
Originally posted by: RedBeard
Originally posted by: corkyg
We have similar systems - P4, 3 GHz, 1 GB, 120 GB HDD, Radeon 9700 Pro/128.

I have never had a problem with my pagefile - I put it on a separate partition so it doesn't interfere with other things and cause fragmentation I keep it set at 25 GB max and min. It is rock stable.

Agree with Skooma - there are as many opinions as replies. This has worked for me for the past 10 years starting with Win95.
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25 GB?? I thought usually your pagefile was supposed to be 1.5 your ram size.
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No, that's a stupid guideline just like how people used to have a guideline for AGP Aperture size.

You make it as big as you need it, and 25GB is stupid. You don't even need that.

IF you have 1gb, set your pagefile from 2 - 4gb... 1.5 - 3gb was what I used and that was plenty enough.

I have 2gb now and I still set it at 1.5 - 3gb. I figure 4gb is what you will need tops anyways..
 
Are you sure you don't mean 2.5GB? I didn't think Windows allowed a page file size over 4GB (4096KB).
 
it's simple, try around 500mb min/max, and if windows ever says that it is increasing the size of the page file/virtual mem then you may want to bump it up.
(i say may because, maybe you'll only ever get that message when you do something pagefile intensive, but it ends up happening with something that you rarely do, if so, then you'll have to decide if you want to use more HDD space for the pagefile)

like when i doxygen a large codebase, it uses a lot of pagefile, but I never increase the size, because I don't have reason to, as the doxygen process still completes ok because windows temp. increased the pagefile size.
 
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