windows 8 ram
I'm reading an article about paged and non-paged memory and started thinking.
I have 16gb of RAM on my win8 box. So I turned off virtual memory. I was thinking that way everything is running in RAM, and I won't have anything paging back and forth from my hard drive.
from the article I started questioning if maybe that isn't the best idea. maybe having a page file - even though it's on a slow hard drive - would still be best for over all performance.
So my question is, for my pc,
16gb ram, i5 processor, NVidia 660gtx
should I turn virtual memory off, or keep a page file?
I have 16gb of RAM on my win8 box. So I turned off virtual memory. I was thinking that way everything is running in RAM, and I won't have anything paging back and forth from my hard drive.
from the article I started questioning if maybe that isn't the best idea. maybe having a page file - even though it's on a slow hard drive - would still be best for over all performance.
So my question is, for my pc,
16gb ram, i5 processor, NVidia 660gtx
should I turn virtual memory off, or keep a page file?
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in Windows 8, which leaves virtually any "modern mode" application that you've started active in RAM
Such does not happen to me because I use essentially none of them :) I use a fairly steady 2.8 - 3Gb of memory on my 8Gb machine.
@JeffBeall - If you use modern mode apps, and wish to quit them, Alt-F4 will usually do that cleanly.
.... Thinkpads_User
Such does not happen to me because I use essentially none of them :) I use a fairly steady 2.8 - 3Gb of memory on my 8Gb machine.
@JeffBeall - If you use modern mode apps, and wish to quit them, Alt-F4 will usually do that cleanly.
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My experience (with Windows 8 RAM usage) is the same as [Mr] Thinkpads_User.
I should have mentioned Alt-F4 for closing them ... but most folks don't do that ... they just swipe away or hit the Windows key -- but if you later look at task manager you'll see all the Modern Mode apps still running.
I also never use any of them ... my Windows 8 machine is ALWAYS on the desktop :-)
I also never use any of them ... my Windows 8 machine is ALWAYS on the desktop :-)
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thank you for the help.
So what did you decide to do and why?
Agree with joewinograd's conclusion. :-)