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Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB, because it stores the memory image compressed. You can put it on your slower hard drive that isn't being accessed by other heavy disk access if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. http://superuser.com/a/286476/4236https://superuser.com/a/286476/4236

Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB, because it stores the memory image compressed. You can put it on your slower hard drive that isn't being accessed by other heavy disk access if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. http://superuser.com/a/286476/4236

Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB, because it stores the memory image compressed. You can put it on your slower hard drive that isn't being accessed by other heavy disk access if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. https://superuser.com/a/286476/4236

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Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB, because it stores the memory image compressed. You can put it on your slower hard drive that isn't being accessed by other heavy disk access if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. http://superuser.com/a/286476/4236

Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB. You can put it on your slower hard drive if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. http://superuser.com/a/286476/4236

Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB, because it stores the memory image compressed. You can put it on your slower hard drive that isn't being accessed by other heavy disk access if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. http://superuser.com/a/286476/4236

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Do not disable the swap file It is not just for when you run out of memory. There is no direct performance gain in turning it off, windows only reads from it when it needs to, it writes to it all the time so it is ready whenever it is needed.

You can reduce it to about 2/3rds of memory size if you have more than around 4GB. You can put it on your slower hard drive if you don't have space on an SSD. But it is beneficial to have one somewhere.

See this answer for more info as to why. http://superuser.com/a/286476/4236