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June 17th, 2022 21:00
Aurora R7, customizing my virtual memory?
Hi!
I reset my PC recently, and I remembered that back in the day when talking with Dell support, they mentioned I could customize my virtual memory to help speed the PC up, which I did. I attached a screenshot below of what my virtual memory looked like before I reset my PC. Should I be doing this or leave it as automatic? If I should be doing it, do my settings look like they were correct? I believe that is how the Dell support tech helped me set it up.
I look forward to hearing from you!
sam55todd
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June 18th, 2022 02:00
In most cases automatic should be perfectly fine, exceptions are probably related to those main reasons (probably not a full list):
a) You have a confidence of your software usage and system background processes about max/min size and won't allow system to go beyond those hard limits.
b) PCs with multiple drives of different speed (or even perhaps you're running critically low space on main drive) - then it's worth moving (or extending) pagefile.sys to faster drive if it's designed for this purpose, e.g. not in conflict with another storage transfer operations (or whatever your priorities are).
c) You're sure operating system will never go over physical RAM limits - then you can switch it off completely, but if it's overflows {e.g. memory leaks} then PC will freeze, therefore you should be ready for data loss.
There's no option to move hiberfil.sys or swapfile.sys, your screenshot only affects pagefile.sys.
mako64
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June 18th, 2022 07:00
I did this with my R11 for DCS sim game for the large maps. Never I had any issues and with better results then auto.