Windows 7 = over 30GB?!

[imagoon]

AFAIK it dumps the RAM to a dump file, not the page file.

At crash -> pagefile
Next boot -> moved to a .dmp

 

[VirtualLarry]

AFAIK it dumps the RAM to a dump file, not the page file.

No, when the system bugchecks, the filesystem drivers may be in a borked state, so the only safe thing to do is to be able to write to the pre-allocated pagefile sectors on the primary storage device. Upon reboot, the memory dump is copied into a .dmp file.

 

[Raduque]

I used the dism tool to cleanup the winsxs folder on my V8P and got almost 4gb back. This is windows 8.1 with the latest updates applied.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

What if you are using an SSD without a pagefile?

 

[master_shake_]

pagefile is equivlanet to memory amount you don't need that big a page file anymore.

hiberfil.sys gets big and system restore can be removed.