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What's wrong with disabling the Windows page file?

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Mar 15, 202623383 views
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People say that you always need a page file, and that it will increase performance, but my Windows 7 is set to run without a page file. I simply don't understand why people say this - I have 6 GiB of RAM, and the only time I even came close to running out of RAM was when I was compiling Chromium, f…

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A pagefile will never increase performance, but it doesn't necessarily degrade it either (with proper memory management). Running without a pagefile, however, will only tend to increase your system's instability with respect to applications requesti…

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