Pagefile in ramdisk (question)

[TylerCiggy]

I´m wondering if it could be useful to save the pagefile in the ramdisk and I think maybe here some of you could give me a nice answer =)

I'm not sure how windows pagefile works... its only hdd swapping ram ? Or it serves as cache too ? (I imagine I run a game and after a while it writes some data in the pagefile, if I run this same game after reboot, will it have some benefit of having data storage in the pagefile ?

[Support]

its only hdd swapping ram ? Or it serves as cache too ?

no cache function.

And data stored in pagefiles is not persistent across reboots.

[sst]

I´m wondering if it could be useful to save the pagefile in the ramdisk and I think maybe here some of you could give me a nice answer =)
I'm not sure how windows pagefile works... its only hdd swapping ram ? Or it serves as cache too ? (I imagine I run a game and after a while it writes some data in the pagefile, if I run this same game after reboot, will it have some benefit of having data storage in the pagefile ?

its only hdd swapping ram ? Or it serves as cache too ?

no cache function.
And data stored in pagefiles is not persistent across reboots.

I'm not sure how windows pagefile works...

Respond = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging

Also, ...

What is your computer Windows OS ?

If your computer have XP or Vista or Windows 7 or Windows 8 = Try ReadyBoost, with a USB ThumbDrive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readyboost

If your computer have Windows with is x64, and 4 Gig and greater ram, try to disable completly pagefile.

[disker]

And data stored in pagefiles is not persistent across reboots.

Wondering if pagefile content is stored while entering (hybrid) energy saving mode in Windows 7?

Awaking without data loss possible?

[Support]

pagefile content is still there while entering sleep/hybrid sleep mode.

[disker]

Thx.

If pagefile.sys gets its own partition (DIO, 1024 Mb, NTFS), it is NOT working with drive letter A: !?
Drive letter F: for example is working.

Are there some known restrictions regarding on os windows 7 64-bit?
Drive letter A: has been used for floppy drive (long, long time ago...)

[Support]

pagefiles cannot be set to drive A:/B:. This is restricted by Windows.

[mikie]

make me login now i fogot what i was doing
Ohh Swap file...


I've been playing with a ram drive and ram cache for a spinning drive.
Research and hands on ; Microsoft windows 7/64 ,, Somebody at microsoft says, if you have enough ram you only need enough swap file to cover the blue screen dumps.. so a mini dump is about 331mb... Which just so happens to be the size of a write of 'something' to the swap file here when I have ample ram and nothing using it and absolutely no problems.

Win7/64 complains & suggests it wants 400 mb minimum if you go to disable the swap.

Anyhow I set my swap minimum size to 500mb = 512 in explorer & typed in it the maximum size as suggested by the computer... then i put D drive, basically used here for an image and few other junk storage things.. as a system managed swap. Letting windows set the size it... The System, puts a conservative sized swap file there, but doesnt seem to use it. ... for My sanity.

Then in a RamDisk drive, put 500mb in its own 660mb partition for a swap. Seems to work !

Microsoft guy says... the swap will use some math to decide which drive to use.. which I think probably would be basically least used, fastest.. and some other unknown or un-thought of ... to my head... parameters.

[Support]

Here are some discussions on pagefiles.
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=594&p=1293&hilit=Q ... ions#p1293

[arfgh]

with the current amount of ram the usage of pagile is totally deprecated. Even if you dont use it, you will see how the computer speed is increased.