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Page file ??

I believe you can always turn off page file, but why would you?

Sure, it's not helping performance any with 2GB of RAM, but it acts as a safety net if you happen to be doing something (say playing a game) that caches more than 2GB of files (textures and such can get pretty big), and if you have a memory leak lacking a pagefile will cause your computer to crash instead of grinding to a halt like it will with a pagefile.

I believe you need one to do memory dumps as well, but I could be wrong on that.
 
I have two gigs and as much as I'd like to, no way I could disable the page file.

And you cant do it anyway.
Windows cries like a little girl before you do it, and then afterwards it will bug you constantly to turn it back on.

And way too many apps and games will outright refuse to run if you dont have it.


This has been discussed ad naseum in all the forum sections for many years.
DONT DO IT.

If you like, you could try setting it to a specific size, but some folks would tell you thats bad too. I havent had any issues with that yet.
 
Can't turn it off with ONLY 2GB of RAM.

"With 8 GB and no swap file, the system was fine. Even in some memory intensive scenarios such as opening files in Photoshop CS3 with a total file size of 3 GB, the system remained very responsive and even snappy, never writing to disk once.

When the memory size is reduced to 2 GB , applications immediately crash as soon as the system runs out of RAM and Windows is unable to write the files to virtual memory on the hard drive. This situation is especially critical if the memory shortage hits one of the Windows system components - that may quickly result in the Windows Aero turning itself off as a result of the graphics driver crashing. The only remedy in such a situation is rebooting the system"

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...ta_workshop/page6.html
 
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