Best page file size?

Hey I was just wondering what size page file you guys have set? I saw on a couple of threads people adjusting their page file to give them more space on their hdd, so I changed mine to 150mb.
Everything was working fine except for when I play games on battery life. The first happened yesterday when I was bored on the plane, so I started playing minecraft. After about 30mins the computer just shut off, and I assumed it was the battery that was dead so didn't try turn it on. When I got home though I noticed the battery was still at 60%.
Then today I was showing someone cod on my clevo, and quickly unplugged to bring it out to him. He was halfway through a game of cod (with the battery being 99% when I unplugged it) and it just shut off.

So I downloaded Whocrashed and adjusted the page file to 800mb wondering if this is the problem. I played another game of cod on battery and it didnt' crash at all. So I guess I found the problem but I don't want to waste 800mb of space...

Btw the windows error and solution reports are saying that PowerBiosServer "stopped working"
is this related to the page file?

thx

 

It's suggested that you try to keep your page file around 10%. Windows tends to warn you if you go less than that that you may notice issues and there won't be room for crash dumps. You can always try less than that, but I've found 10% to be the sweet spot as it gives you back quite a lot of the space that is normally pre-allocated.

Plus some games won't even run if you go too low or remove it completely.

 

With 8 gigs of ram and above, I always set it to zero and am yet to see the scenario when I need any crash reports from the OS. But it noticeably improves responsiveness of the system.

 

10% of my hard drive size? or my total ram?

 

10% of your total RAM.

For me when if I have less than 4GB RAM I set page file size = total RAM; with 8GB+ you can set it to 2GB or less and it mainly depends on how you use your computer.

If you have 12GB RAM as in your signature, you should not have any problems even with 0MB page file!!! but anyways you can give it 1GB and see if it is stable (I suspect there was another reason for the shutdown)

 

With having only a 60gb SSD, and 4gb of ram , I normally set the page-file to an minimum/maximum of 500mb and it seems to work fine.

John.

 

Same, with an SSD and plenty of RAM you dont need a page file I have never had one with an SSD and never run into a problem, you need all the space you can get as well.