Physical RAM vs Paging File

@TrevaUK (142)
May 19, 2007 5:15am CST
Today I have installed new memory modules into my pc. (2 GBs) I noticed that windows is still using a lot of the paging file, about 700 Mbs Would it be safe to disable the paging file and use only the Physical Memory, which would speed up performance. I am using Windows XPx64 Edition
3 responses
@draco666 (174)
• United States
20 May 07
I have disabled paging file and increased on a 2 gig system. Without the paging file I got some freezes and trouble with programs using large amounts of RAM. Increasing it did nothing. I suggest keeping as is but if possible remove the paging file from the Local Disk or the hard drive that windows is install to reduce the head spin on the hard drive. In some odd cases this can gave a lot of performance increase.
@draco666 (174)
• United States
20 May 07
sorry for double post, You want to enable paging file on the other hard drive.
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
20 May 07
I would suggest that you leave paging file as is. Windows I believe use it for a lot of other things beside memory related operations. With your 2GB memory the performance battle neck would then shifted to your hard drive. If it is possible try to distribute page files to other drives like Draco666 suggested or leave a sufficient free space at your boot drive or window's system partition.
@logaritse (388)
• Indonesia
19 May 07
don't disable paging files, as far i know there is a calculation how big your paging files. To speed up performance, make it sure you have enough free space on your harddisk. sometimes windows just created paging files but not use it when windows doesn't need it.