Without paging I still had a hard time going beyond 5 gb or RAM usage. I loaded up my audio editor with dozens of wave files, opened two browser instances with about 50 tabs each, office apps with four or five docs and spreadsheets, you name it.
Performance was nearly the same. I will say that my workstation still seemed to run faster without paging, but I had less free memory of course. I'd probably be "safer" with a page file, but I'll never near the limit. Apparently, paging can make meory use more efficient by placing memory address and data pointers in the page file for quick acccess. But I figure, if it places that in RAM too, all the better.
And I really agree that a memory dump will only be useful to a handful of people, and I don't know any of them. Myself I have always set ram on any of my machines that have more than six gigs to a 1gb fixed size page file.
Small enough to not be noticed and doesn't ever cause fragmentation. Well, I've got good news for you: you actually do know two of them, you just didn't know you do! They're MagicAndre and cluberti. I hope you never need their help, but if you ever do, now you know whom to ask.
Such a system just doesn't bog down. And you'll never, ever be able to stand to go back to an HDD-based system. Yep :. I would guess a few benjamins changing hands. Just in case :. Sure, just don't lose sight of the fact that the thread started with "I intend getting more RAM". They're not exactly worth their weight in gold. People who have not used an SSD-equipped system often don't understand the potential for the increase of the level of responsiveness. I perceive that's what this thread is about.
Well, to be fair, people who have not used RAMDISK's which I perceive is what this thread is about often don't understand the potential for the further increase of the level of responsiveness. Of course such a setup has it's own drawbacks, unlike the switch from conventional HDD's to SSD's which is perfectly "transparent" and surely it is much more costly on a per Gb base.
Just to clear up any misunderstanding, my main interest in using a large ramdisk doesn't really concern performance but wear on the HDD. Though if I got an increase in performance because of using a ramdisk then fine, I'd be happy with that too. Mostly I want to use a large ramdisk for downloading into and seeding torrents - which is, as far as I understand, is pretty wearing on an HDD.
My previous computer which I had for many years over that time had multiple HDD fails and, as best as I could work out, that always seemed connected to the partition that I would save torrents to. Years ago I used to obsess about performance, but not now. Computers nowadays are pretty well fast enough to do most things at a fair pace and I'm of an age now that I don't mind waiting a second or two for something to happen - the world isn't going to fall on my head if things don't happen instantaneously.
I kind of chuckle now at my previous self and smile at the way that I learned a valuable lesson in my own time. I can though and do appreciate that computer pro's do obsess about performance - their jobs rely on it and without their concern there would be no real improvement over time for us all.
So more power to them and their concerns - they do us all good in the long run. Just realise that not everyone needs to share that obsession and it's possible for learning to have more than one outcome - it depends on where you're at. Heh, that's kind of like the difference between using Nitrous Oxide in an engine and just having an engine that can generate Real Power all day.
Radish, SSDs don't have mechanical parts to wear out. Yes, flash memory does have a limited life, but given a very conservative write cycles capability per flash block, you'd have to write terabytes to a GB SSD before getting close to wearout. Before you can set a pagefile however, you need to disable the automatic pagefile. The command for this is:. After that you can use the pagefileset command to set a pagefile, to create a pagefile, to delete a pagefile Skip to content batch pagefile windows 7 wmic Hi I am trying to create a batch file to disable the page file on windows 7, is there any wmic command will do this?
Click on System link. Click on the settings button under the performance menu. Go to the advanced tab in the dialog window opened. Susham June 26, Susham is a tech enthusiast and a Software Engineer by Profession. This site uses cookies for improving performance, advertising and analytics. By browsing this site, you accept our use of cookies. More Info.
I Understand. Privacy Policy. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
0コメント