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    SZ: "no paging file" for better performance?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by biumoc, Aug 24, 2007.

  1. biumoc

    biumoc Notebook Consultant

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    Given 2GB memory, anybody has done that? Pls advise me. thanks
     
    biumoc, Aug 24, 2007
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    If you were on XP, I'd say sure go ahead. Vista...I wouldn't. If you're gaming and it suddenly goes over, it'll lag for a few seconds at the very least.
     
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    I prefer always using a pagefile personally. I like to have tons of things open at once and often eat my RAM up. You can probably make it small, but I would not obliterate it.
     
    derelict1987, Aug 24, 2007
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    You need to have one, mainly because some programs will always use the pagefile to store stuff that is rarely used but important.
     
    Greg, Aug 24, 2007
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    if the sz can take in 4gb, i might have a go at it and remove the pagefile. if nothing else, it may help reduce hard disk access.
     
    lua, Aug 24, 2007
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