SSD optimization

[SunSamurai]

lol @ people droning on about VM and how you cant turn it off or bad things will happen no matter how much ram you have. Snakeoil and shens to you good sirs. Provide proof or why bother? Because honestly nothing bad is happening.

 

[whitewarrior11]

Just a question: I have 4 GB and running Windows 7 RC with a Crucial 64GB SSD. If I try to run two instances of World of Warcraft, I can't play more than 5 minutes without both instances crashing because of an *apparent* lack of RAM (that's why Win 7 tells me). In this case, I don't have a page file whatsoever.

Turning on a 4GB pagefile on a secondary HDD solves my problem. I can now happily dual-box without any problems (both characters in Dalaran on high-pop hours).

Is it the page file helping me? or something else? WoW doesn't take that much RAM (around 700mb, according to Win 7).

 

[theevilsharpie]

If two WoW instances crash without a page file, but work fine with a page file, then I guess the page file must be helping you

 

[jimhsu]

If the pagefile is over 200 MB in size (I think), Windows saves crash dump headers. If you have so much RAM that there is no chance that you'll use the page file at all, just set it to 200 MB or so and forget about it, for application compatibility (i.e Photoshop).