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What is my recommended total paging file size?
I don t know how to set my paging file size. While google says the initial should be 1.5 of my RAM and maximum should be double, Windows says my recommended "total paging size for all drives" is 1939 MB
I have 2 GB of RAM and I don t know *how windows calculated this 1939 MB*, can someone please shed light? Should I go with what the internet tells me or what windows tells me?
3 Answers
- dewcoonsLv 72 years ago
Leave it dynamics and let Windows manage it. That way it will always have the size it needs. The manual siz settings are a hold over from the days when hard drives were tiny and you needed to limit the file size so that it did not consume half your hard drive. That is no longer an issue today.
(25+ years in IT. Do this for a living.)
- ?Lv 42 years ago
Leave it as dynamic. Windows will expand your pagefile as needed automatically so you don't have to worry about it. The rule of thumb for pagefiles are to size them to about 1.5 times the amount of RAM you have installed. If you find yourself accessing the pagefile a lot then it is time to either upgrade the amount of RAM in your system (if possible) or to reevaluate your usage and workload you place on the computer.
- DavidLv 72 years ago
In general windows does a pretty good job of managing the page file size. All attempts I have seen to override this makes things worse.
