Can I get rid or memory page file and stop all that swapping?
By Kubla Khan. Tuesday, 7. July 2009, 03:41:59
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Ithoqua 05-30-2006 at 08:13:06 PM
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I've been through this debate on a number of boards in different places. I have had my memory paging DISABLED since I went to 2Gb of ram about a year ago. There might be some programs that require paging enabled, but there aren't many. I've run just about every game out there with no issues, and .NET and Visual Studio development tools as well as Poser and a couple other rendering programs. Unless specific applications you use REQUIRE paging, I'd disable it. What I noticed, both at work and at home, is that Windows tends to page parts of almost everything into VM unless you have no page file. This is easily testable by selecting to display the virtual memory column in performance in the task manager. The main effect this has, especially with graphics intensive applications is a slowdown in load times as the application will be swapping textures on and off the hard drive at the same time it's trying to do large sequential reads from the hard drive for application data. In most cases, even when you think you have more than enough video ram, windows still uses system ram for textures. I've been using cards with 128mb and 256mb for a while with applications that only require 64mb and there was still a noticable performance difference with paging turned off. Obviously, this is just my personal opinion, and if you get an out of memory error with a particular application... by all means, turn it back on. I regularly run things like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, WoW, etc. while playing music in ITunes, chatting in AiM, etc. and running voice chat software and/or downloading and never get out of memory errors or performance issues.
Ithoqua 05-30-2006 at 08:13:06 PM
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I've been through this debate on a number of boards in different places. I have had my memory paging DISABLED since I went to 2Gb of ram about a year ago. There might be some programs that require paging enabled, but there aren't many. I've run just about every game out there with no issues, and .NET and Visual Studio development tools as well as Poser and a couple other rendering programs. Unless specific applications you use REQUIRE paging, I'd disable it. What I noticed, both at work and at home, is that Windows tends to page parts of almost everything into VM unless you have no page file. This is easily testable by selecting to display the virtual memory column in performance in the task manager. The main effect this has, especially with graphics intensive applications is a slowdown in load times as the application will be swapping textures on and off the hard drive at the same time it's trying to do large sequential reads from the hard drive for application data. In most cases, even when you think you have more than enough video ram, windows still uses system ram for textures. I've been using cards with 128mb and 256mb for a while with applications that only require 64mb and there was still a noticable performance difference with paging turned off. Obviously, this is just my personal opinion, and if you get an out of memory error with a particular application... by all means, turn it back on. I regularly run things like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, WoW, etc. while playing music in ITunes, chatting in AiM, etc. and running voice chat software and/or downloading and never get out of memory errors or performance issues.
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