With 6GB or more, you might be able to do general purpose computing without a pagefile, but with less you better give some breathing room. I prefer to play it safe and have a page file.
On Aug 24, 10:15 pm, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > As I've said before, if you don't have much RAM and you turn pagefile off > you are going to get horrible application performance because of RAM > constantly having to create room for new data and if no memory is available > to free for application data then your going to get a lot of app crashes and > hangs. > > THEfog > > On 24/08/2010 9:50 PM, "Demonicus" <[email protected]> wrote: > > more pagefile = more stuttering (exception is if u have a SSD drive). > I've ran without pagefile too, but some games (heavy ones, like the > witcher) ask for that, so i enabled it. Pagefile is just caching, and > if u dont have it when elecricity goes down, ull lose all data that > was cached (probably important things), but anyway readyboost is > better, although i think it dont cache everything that pagefile does. > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
