Questions tagged [pagefile]
Use for paging for virtual memory management.
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Is it okay if I lower my pagefile size in Windows 10 as I've got plenty of hardware RAM to deal with it? [duplicate]
The pagefile is currently automatically allocated through Windows 10 itself. It seems that it has allocated 5888 MB of disk space.
My system has 32 GB of RAM available and my intention was to lower ...
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How to enable BSOD memory dumps with UWF
For our industrial computers we use Unified Write Filter (UWF) on the systems. But since a recent update on some computers (30+) we experience a BSOD during shutdown BUGCODE_NDIS_DRIVER, tried ...
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Windows 10 memory and Task Manager
Recently, I was scanning the C drive and I noticed pagefile.sys took up a whopping 32 GB of storage. Now I did some research and found out that pagefile is for virtual memory, which makes Windows 10 ...
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How to force Windows 10 to use pagefile on usb-connected SSD?
I have a constantly connected USB SSD disk. I'm never going to disconnect it at runtime. It operates in a "better performance mode", not "quick removal". I can configure pagefile ...
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disable the pagefile individually to each program
is there a way or program that allows me to disable the pagefile only to a program?
I don't want to disable it globally and I don't want to restart the computer every time I disable it
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Pagefile in Windows 10 Guest Virtual Machine
I have a Windows 10 machine (32GB RAM) running a Windows 10 Guest (10GB RAM) for my work. The guest is given a 80GB dynamic disk, and the underlying storage is an SSD. The OS itself is < 20GB.
The ...
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Why should the size of the page file increase the more memory you have? [duplicate]
I think I understand the purpose of the page file; if the computer runs out of physical memory, the page file is needed to have additional (virtual) memory - very simply said.
Since Windows 2000 I ...
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Is it possible to reset paging file size in Windows 10?
My pc have 16gb of ram installed and by default pagefile management set to "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives". So the default pagefile.sys size in my case is 2432 mb. At ...
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What are the criteria Windows 10 uses to place the page file?
I've recently noticed that my own workstation has felt a bit sluggish but thought nothing of it at first. It has two really fast 500GB NVMe SSDs and one 1TB HDD.
Then I played a game - not something I ...
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Win10 doesn't respect pagefile settings for other disks than C:
I tried to move my pagefile off from C: to another disk, D:. I set my preferences in Start > Advanced System Settings > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Virtual Memory. I have set
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How can I see the pagefile of a process using Process Explorer?
I thought Process Explorer has every statistic possible. But I was looking for the pagefile size of a process and I can't find it. Maybe it's under a different name?
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Why won't windows shrink my pagefile?
According to al the documentation that I have read online, when I configure Windows to automatically manage my page file, the size should automatically grow and shrink as needed. While my computer ...
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How is default page-file size actually calculated by Windows?
I want to know how does Windows calculate default page file size. For example, for 48 GB RAM it shows 7168 MB page file size.
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Can you use virtual memory like you can physical RAM if you have an NVMe drive? Are there limitations to this?
I have a program that needs LOTS of RAM to for a computation project I need to run for a weekend. Obviously I don't have supercomputer ram and my limits as a consumer is 32GB.
Windows has memory ...
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Native IO performance of 1 pagefile per physical drive in off-the shelf configuration vs software or hardware RAID
Windows 10 allows to assign pagefile sizes for individual logical drives. In my case, both the main boot SSD and an extra SSD have their entire size dedicated to a single logical drive each.
Now I've ...
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Evaluating Specificationa of pagefile.sys (Windows 10, Summary) [closed]
I hope, that this question is not too opinion-based and will try to approach it as neutral as I can.
I've read through some sites about this topic, getting a load of contradictory information.
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Set the page/swap file on an external hard disk to save space on the main system disk
My 32-bit Windows 10 machine has a reasonable processor, but limited hardware resources (only 4GB RAM and 28GB local HDD). Windows itself takes up nearly half the disk so I'm using an external 1TB USB ...
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Pagefile is active even when RAM usage is below 70%. How do I fix it?
I have this laptop with decent specs:
CPU: Intel i5-8250u 4 cores (8 threads) @ 1.60GHz / Max Turbo @ 3.4GHz
GPU: Integrated Intel UHD 620 + discrete Radeon 520 GDDR5
RAM: 4GB DDR4 2400MHz
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Windows 10 is ignoring my pagefile settings and is unwilling to create or use a pagefile on a different drive
Recently, my system performance has been impacted by Windows constantly writing and reading the pagefile on my C drive which is a SSD so I decided to move the page file to my D drive, a separate, ...
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Is there a way to ensure a program occupies the page file instead of RAM?
I would like to have some control over which programs occupy RAM and which occupy the page file when RAM becomes limited. Perhaps some sort of prioritisation-based solution would work well.
I am ...
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Windows doesn't boot after un-checking automatic managing pagefiles
I was trying to partition my disk, and in order to do that I unchecked automatic managing of pagefile in advanced settings and put the radio on "No pagefile" and restarted my PC, now it doesn't boot, ...
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Moving page file - should i keep “some” on the primary drive?
I run win10 with 16GB RAM (thinking of getting 32GB soon).
My operating system is on a 512GB SSD.
I read that I may benefit by moving the pagefile to a non system drive and since I have 2 more SSDs ...
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Windows Server 2008 with large pagefile.sys
I found out that on our server with Windows Server 2008, we have a pagefile.sys of 62 GB. The current usage of the RAM is about 16GB of 32GB.
How can I find out which process caused this large file? ...
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What is consuming so much of my system RAM?
I noticed that my system is not going to hibernation state properly since a few days in the past week. I checked a little into my hiberfile size to verify if that was a cause of concern.
The ...
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Windows reports “Out of Memory” despite huge pagefile
How to force Windows to use the swap file to the fullest?
I use Windows 7 64-bit and I have 16 GB of RAM + 8 GB (static) pagefile.
When I open many Chrome tabs, and the physical memory is almost ...
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How to store data in pagefile?
Memory-mapping, e.g. via Python's numpy.memmap, works, albeit temporarily; once pagefile capacity is exceeded, the arrays are silently unmapped from pagefile. Re-mapping each time is undesired - need ...
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Any risks to greatly increasing pagefile size?
I require 64GB to fit an entire dataset in memory for deep learning, but have only 12GB RAM. Virtual memory being the next-best alternative, I learned it can be effectively increased via increasing ...
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Windows still using page file on C:/ despite set to none
TLDR: I have set my page file to be exclusively on my secondary E: drive in advanced device settings, however after reboot I still see a lot of page files still being written on my primary C: drive ...
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Windows 10 virtual memory/pagefile discrepancies
My Windows 10 system is using far too much virtual memory
How do I stop this?
Using HWiNFO64 you can see I currently have about 75 GB of virtual memory on my system and am using a massive 31 GB. The ...
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Windows 7 Pagefile on Mounted Partition, on 1 HDD System: Folder Attributes/Permissions?
I wish to put my pagefile.sys in a separate partition on the same HDD as my boot partition, mounted on a folder in the tree of my boot partition — say "$PagePart".
My question: should $PagePart ...
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What is risk of moving pagefile.sys to another partition?
I have 4 physical drives 146 GB in my server (windows server 2008) configured as RAID 0 result of 2 logical drives C(50 GB) and drive D(remaining GB)
My system is showing alters of low disk space in ...
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Is there way to detect Page file size change source within Windows 7?
In the office, I do my work on a Windows 7 machine that has 16GB on RAM. However, after each restart it automatically sets the pagefile to 3072MB. I have created a delayed schedule task (which calls a ...
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Virtual and Physical address mapping in 32 bit Windows
Correct me I am wrong.
Q1) My understanding is that in 32 bit mode we get 4GB virtual address space. Is this because 32 bit Windows can only support 4 GB physical RAM.?
Q2) Every process get its own ...
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Is there any way to “Reset” or “Clear” windows paging file size which is managed by system?
Is there any way to "Reset" or "Clear" windows paging file size which is managed by system? In my case I have 16 gigs of ram installed and all paging file settings are set to auto. At some point in ...
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Why do default settings on 64-bit Windows still imply a large page file?
My question is based on the observation that since the introduction of 64-bit Windows, many more people around me seem to fall for page-file related lockups of their systems. E.g., something simple as ...
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Paging file doesn't work right
Every time I logon to my computer (Acer Aspire 5315-Windows Vista) I immediately get a message that System is low on memory. It isn't. Every day I have to go in and try to change the paging file. I ...
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How to find what is filling up my pagefile
Context: My computer runs Windows 10, and it was bought as a gaming pc. Good gpu, good cpu, 16 Gb of RAM, etc. There are two hard drives, a very small (100 Gb) SSD for the OS, plus a 3Tb HDD.
In the ...
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Does the Virtual Paging File reduce the lifespan of an SSD drive with little benefit?
I've ready that the pagefile.sys writing frequently to an SSD drive reduces its lifespan and since and SSD drive doesn't much benefit from putting the data in one location (since it's truly random ...
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Why isn't pagefile being used?
I have an trouble with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. The paged pool load memory but does not load the actual pagefile (I have space on the drive for it).
Actually the problem is in memory ...
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Optimizing pagefile size: I'd like to clarify on the Peak Commit and my Physical RAM?
I want to optimize the pagefile size to fit my actual needs. And I want to follow the formula suggested by Mark Russinovich: The Minimum should be Peak Commit minus Physical RAM, and the Maximum ...
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Pagefile disabling at runtime possible?
For a security project I need to get rid of paging in Windows.
I have found a possibility of deleting and disabling the pagefile however, for this a restart is required.
My question is: is there ...
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Windows first saves crash dumps to the pagefile. It only moves the data into a separate file after reboot. Why must they go into the pagefile first? [duplicate]
Windows first saves crash dumps to the pagefile. Windows only moves the data into a separate file (either a Memory.dmp file or a minidump file) after reboot.
Why must crash dumps go into the pagefile ...
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Page file is being created even when ram is not full
I get the page file in my C drive even though my RAM consumption is about 16 to 17 % so I want to know when exactly a pagefile is created, because I thought it is created only when ram is full. If ...
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How do I reduce a 10GB *c:\pagefile.sys* and 10GB *c:\hiberfil.sys* on a 50GB boot partition?
I've got a preinstalled Win10, which I dual booted with win81. I extended both, after which the Win81 partition didn't boot anymore. (Maybe it moved too, IDK). I finally got it to boot, but now there'...
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Why is my computer using almost 64GB of pagefile size?
I've never experienced this before, I have Eclipse open, a few chrome tabs (about 8) and a movie, across 3 monitors.
My PC specs are:
i7-4790K
16GB Ram
And I manually configured a page file size of ...
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Unable to boot into Windows 10 (UEFI)
My laptop comes with 1TB spinning hard disk and 16 GB SSD for Caching. The SSD caching was not working after doing a clean install of Windows 10 Pro.
While trying to enable SSD caching, I decided to ...
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Does Page File size affect Gaming performance?
Does changing the Page File size affect gaming performance? If so, how big of an impact is it & what changes result in better performance?
I'm tweaking Windows to maximize gaming performance. I ...
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Page faults, strange memory behavior and page files - particularly but not specifically in R
I should say from the start, I am aware that I could probably do with some more RAM as I'm currently running RStudio on Windows 10 with 4GB of RAM installed. Neither is the post necessarily solely ...
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What is the largest size for Windows Pagefile.sys you can set?
I know that recommended size for a page file C:\Pagefile.sys in Windows is about 2 or 1.5 times the RAM. Out of curiosity what is the maximum size for a page file that can be set?
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why page file size bigger than recommended?
Is it normal that my page file is really big compare to recommended? Should I change some settings?
