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I know SSDs are good enough now not to be too bothered about writes, however one thing bothers me.
I have 32GB RAM and most of the time the Pagefile isn't touched as free RAM is available.
However any kind of operation that fills the disk cache (eg large file copy operations) soon fills all 32GB (most of it just the windows disk cache) and Windows starts dumping huge writes to the pagefile. EDIT - writes are not as big as I thought but point still stands.
Is there a setting to tell windows to not dump ram to the pagefile just to make way for an even larger disk cache? I can understand to make way for memory for programs, but it seems wasteful just dumping RAM to SSD just because the disk cache has grown to 20GB using all free RAM.
Probably not, just thought I'd ask. Guess it will still last 10 years!
I have 32GB RAM and most of the time the Pagefile isn't touched as free RAM is available.
However any kind of operation that fills the disk cache (eg large file copy operations) soon fills all 32GB (most of it just the windows disk cache) and Windows starts dumping huge writes to the pagefile. EDIT - writes are not as big as I thought but point still stands.
Is there a setting to tell windows to not dump ram to the pagefile just to make way for an even larger disk cache? I can understand to make way for memory for programs, but it seems wasteful just dumping RAM to SSD just because the disk cache has grown to 20GB using all free RAM.
Probably not, just thought I'd ask. Guess it will still last 10 years!
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