recommended pagefile settings for 24gb ram with 250gb ssd win7 /win8.1?

[kreactor]

so i got a new desktop and replaced the 1tb drive (using as external storage) with a 250gb ssd

other than steam+ games, just going to have a bunch of vmss (nonpersistent hd)
(to avoid even installing antimalware/antiviurs) for web browsing

should i disable pagefile or specify a 250mb pagefile on the ssd
(shouldn't have much disk write to ssd with all that ram and nonpersistent vm correct?)

thanks!

 

[postmortemIA]

i suggest putting small page file on ssd and large one on the hard drive.

turning page file off does not work well always, and there's really no advantage to it.

 

[kreactor]

i took out the 1tb drive into a sata usb dock to ensure no bottleneck
in fact researching ramdisk for steam cache

 

[ctk1981]

Ever since I went to 16gb on my last two systems I've completely disabled page file with no ill side effects thus far (4 years).

 

[john3850]

My system has 24Gb ram the page file is set 1024 on system ssd.
I use a 8GB ram drive with another 6144GB a page file.
I believe the page file refreshes the ram as needed and my pc sleeps so a page file cant hurt on any pc that's always on.

 

[HOSED]

AFA I know certain programs (Photoshop for instance) require it. I am running 6 GB ram, Win 7 and have not needed one for 2 + years. I believe you can monitor the usage by opening resource monitor (resmon.exe) memory tab

I did not know that THANKS John3850

 

[OldMX]

Just let windows manage it, Windows 8/8.1 use a different formula for pagefile, so it wont be a huge ammount of wasted space.

 

[razel]

+1 Win8/8.1 does do a better job of keeping the pagefile smaller. On my 12GB of RAM workstation, it starts off at 512MB and grows at it sees fit. This is the same strategy I manually set with Win7.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I set mine to 1024mb on the ssd in my system.

 

[kreactor]

no issues thus far with 0 cache, but 1gb winxp vm asked for some