Custom Page File Windows

[allen]

who sets a custom page file for there OS ? ive just re installed windows and i was experiencing system lag a bit, which i shouldnt be on my system... forgot i hadnt set my page file up and everything is lighting again does anyone else set a custom page file up ? i have 16gb of ram so i have a slave drive with a 32gb page file on... works great

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yeah I have a custom size. 2 GB upto 16 GB on my caviar black.

 

[dugdiamond]

on a system with 8GB+ paging shouldn't be needed. it is a leftover from previous OSs and rigs that never had the ability to access alot of RAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging). (EG: win98se with 1gb of ram)

i have 16GB on my main rig and have disabled paging for these reason:

1. paging increases fragmentation (the pagefile is not a static area on you local disk, even though it looks like it)
2. seek times impede performance
3. loading data from a place on a local drive to another place on the storage system, only to read it again, is a waste of system resources. (3 reads, instead of one)
4. a pagefile on a RAID'd BOOT disk is a bad idea (asking for trouble), and therefore the pagefile would be arguably better on a seperate dedicated drive. but, this then has its downfalls too.
5. i use an x64 OS, so memory allocations are not a problem for me

if a person is still using winXP 32-bit (or worse), AND then have 4gb or less of RAM..... pagefiles are a must.


if, like me, you run an x64 bit OS AND you have 8gb+ of RAM, and a RAID'd boot and storage system, then a pagefile hinder performance.


also see here: http://www.tweakhound.com/2011/10/10/the-windows-7-pagefile-and-running-without-one/

 

[yassarikhan786]

on a system with 8GB+ paging shouldn't be needed. it is a leftover from previous OSs and rigs that never had the ability to access alot of RAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging). (EG: win98se with 1gb of ram)

i have 16GB on my main rig and have disabled paging for these reason:

1. paging increases fragmentation (the pagefile is not a static area on you local disk, even though it looks like it)
2. seek times impede performance
3. loading data from a place on a local drive to another place on the storage system, only to read it again, is a waste of system resources. (3 reads, instead of one)
4. a pagefile on a RAID'd BOOT disk is a bad idea (asking for trouble), and therefore the pagefile would be arguably better on a seperate dedicated drive. but, this then has its downfalls too.
5. i use an x64 OS, so memory allocations are not a problem for me

if a person is still using winXP 32-bit (or worse), AND then have 4gb or less of RAM..... pagefiles are a must.


if, like me, you run an x64 bit OS AND you have 8gb+ of RAM, and a RAID'd boot and storage system, then a pagefile hinder performance.


also see here: http://www.tweakhound.com/2011/10/10/the-windows-7-pagefile-and-running-without-one/

That's some useful information dug, thanks.

 

[allen]

wonder why its fix my issues then ? google chrome was running really slow till i put a 32gb page file on my slave drive ? then it was fine...... still its doing no harm its on a 1tb drive with nothing else on it.... if only you could get a page file for you gfx cards then i wouldn't of need to upgrade my card.. the only reason i did was cause my screen res was using all the gfx ram

 

[dugdiamond]

i haven't used a pagefile for over 2 years, and i have had no problems at all.

 

[dugdiamond]

wonder why its fix my issues then ? google chrome was running really slow till i put a 32gb page file on my slave drive ? then it was fine...... still its doing no harm its on a 1tb drive with nothing else on it.... if only you could get a page file for you gfx cards then i wouldn't of need to upgrade my card.. the only reason i did was cause my screen res was using all the gfx ram

chrome - meh - says it all - lol (TBH i think chrome phishes)

GDDR5 and DDR3 are two different memory types, so paging gfx data onto a local drive will be a downgrade not an upgrade. and besides it would be pointless.

if you render mahooooosive files in AE, premiere, or vegas, a chunky pagefile may help, but very little.

people like yourself and i, who do graphics for a living, normally have shedloads of fast ram anyway.

 

[ugiboy]

Hey Guys, I have 32 gig of ram so I have set up a 16gig ramdisk, should I have the Pagefile option on Asrock AXTU enabled or not? Cheers