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Started By awraynor, Jun 30 2012 02:09 PM

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#1 awraynor

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 02:09 PM

I have been trying Folder Sizes and Duplicate File Detective as recommended on another post.
Both have been quite good and stable products. As I was trying Folder Sizes I noticed
pagefile.sys is 15.9 GB. I have a 128GB Vertex SSD as my primary drive with 16GB of RAM if that helps. Online information varies greatly as how I should approach this.

Any recommendations other than leave it alone?

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 02:22 PM

I don't have the link handy, but according to pcdoc's site, if you have 16 gig of ram, you can safely turn off pagefile and indexing on the SSD.
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 02:34 PM

Page Files usually are 1 1/2 times the amount of physical RAM. But like Diehard said, SSD's really shouldn't need it.
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 03:54 PM

Page Files usually are 1 1/2 times the amount of physical RAM. But like Diehard said, SSD's really shouldn't need it.

Not sure the old rule of thumb applies once you get past 2GB of RAM.


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Posted 30 June 2012 - 04:42 PM

I had read a lot of conflicting information, but I put more worth in the expert opinions here.

Thanks again.

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 04:46 PM

I stick with the 1.5 times as I was reading thru some event logs on one of our servers the other day (yea, I lead an exciting life). We had less than 15 gigs of free space left on the C Drive and warnings were being issued because of the 1.5 rule (server has 10 gigs of RAM)
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 08:07 PM

My original SSD was a Vertex 2 60GB SSD. Between the pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys they pretty much filled it up.
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 11:55 PM

I usually either turn the page file off or set it to 2-3 gigs max. Some argue you should have a page file however I have successfully without. I usually set it to 2 gigs min/max and fix it to a size. If I where you I would try without and if you see any issues, then fix the size to something small like 2-4.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:25 PM

Thanks for the help. It's off now and see how it goes.

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 04:14 PM

Mine is off. Seems to run just fine (I do have 16GB RAM). I used SpaceMonger to locate and delete the file. Nice to get that much space back on an SSD :(

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