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Sizing The Windows Page File

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A common question is how big should the Windows page file be?  In my opinion, as small as possible. The Windows page file is analogous to the Linux swap file.  It's a file on the hard disk that serves as virtual memory.  If all running the applications won't fit inside physical RAM, Windows swaps out lesser-used segments of memory to the page file so it can make room for other applications.  But it's a relic from the days when computers had no where near the amount of RAM they have to today. In practice, you never want to use the page file.  Why?  Because paging operations (swapping memory segments between …

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