Pagefile Size

[Fakhruddin Zavery]

Hello,

Is there any guideline as to how much one should keep the pagefile for their
system. I know the recommended thing is 1.5 times the amount of RAM and
twice for maximum.

Is there something wrong just to keep as much as one wants if there is
sufficient hard disk space on the machine?

Thanks and Regards

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Fakhruddin Zavery
Sr. Systems Analyst / Programmer
CATS Tanzania Ltd.
NIC Life House 4th Floor
P. O. Box 2569, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel. +255-22 2137915, 2112631
Fax +255-22 2113033, 2112916
Mob +255 744 277452
website: http://www.catsgroup.com

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Virtual Memory in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

[Courtesy of Alex Nichol, MS-MVP]


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Hello,
|
| Is there any guideline as to how much one should keep the pagefile for their
| system. I know the recommended thing is 1.5 times the amount of RAM and
| twice for maximum.
|
| Is there something wrong just to keep as much as one wants if there is
| sufficient hard disk space on the machine?
|
| Thanks and Regards
|
| --
| Fakhruddin Zavery
| Sr. Systems Analyst / Programmer
| CATS Tanzania Ltd.
| NIC Life House 4th Floor
| P. O. Box 2569, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
| Tel. +255-22 2137915, 2112631
| Fax +255-22 2113033, 2112916
| Mob +255 744 277452
| website: http://www.catsgroup.com

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is there any guideline as to how much one should keep the pagefile for their
system. I know the recommended thing is 1.5 times the amount of RAM and
twice for maximum.

That was never a good rule - but became the conventional wisdom. How
much you need depends on your workload - but the actively needed amount
for a given load goes *down*, not up as you increase RAM. See my
discussion at www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm