Re: should i be consurned
@ironcross32, Oh, I didn't know that much storage was able to be used.
From www.ilovefreesoftware.com:
"In the simplest of terms, a Paging File is a special storage area on the hard disk that the Operating System treats and uses as Random Access Memory (RAM). The Paging File is also called Virtual Memory."
Also, here's something else about the matter.
"With enough RAM in modern computers, the average user’s computer shouldn’t normally use the page file in normal computer use. If you do see your hard drive start to grind away and programs start to slow down when you have a large amount open, that’s an indication that your computer is using the page file – you can speed things up by adding more RAM. You can also try freeing up memory — for example, by getting rid of useless programs running in the background."
But to some extendt, won't you also use up resources opening and closing programs again and again?
And from the same article:
"Some people will tell you that you should disable the page file to speed up your computer. The thinking goes like this: the page file is slower than RAM, and if you have enough RAM, Windows will use the page file when it should be using RAM, slowing down your computer.
This isn’t really true. People have tested this theory and found that, while Windows can run without a page file if you have a large amount of RAM, there’s no performance benefit to disabling the page file.
However, disabling the page file can result in some bad things. If programs start to use up all your available memory, they’ll start crashing instead of being swapped out of the RAM into your page file. This can also cause problems when running software that requires a large amount of memory, such as virtual machines. Some programs may even refuse to run."
Windows automatically manages the pagefile, so I guess you should just leave it alone, that being said:
From the same article:
"However, one tweak that may help in some situations is moving the page file to another drive. If you have two separate hard drives in your computer, assuming one is the system drive with your programs installed on it and one is a less-used data drive, moving the page file to the data drive can potentially offer some increased performance when your page file is in-use. Assuming that Windows will already be using the system drive if it needs to use the page file, this spreads out the hard drive activity instead of concentrating it on one drive."
So if I had an SSD which was the Windows drive and a HDD that was used for data with more storage, would I potentially want to do this?
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