Need for page file with 12 GB RAM

Posted by MartinStettner on Super User See other posts from Super User or by MartinStettner
Published on 2011-01-05T14:07:07Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 14:56 UTC
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Hi,

I recently got my new PC with 12 GB RAM (running Windows 7 64bit). The default installation suggests a 12 GB page file on the system drive (which I think is both inefficient and expensive on a SSD drive...)

I'm wondering if I need any virtual memory at all, 12 GB being more than I had on my previous machine including the page file (I had 3GB RAM + 3GB pagefile).

Thanks

Martin

EDIT

As mokubai pointed out, the question is pretty much answered in Windows 7 pagefile size with large RAM and SSD

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