Timeline for Should I disable swap file if I have lots of RAM or should I move it to a virtual RAM drive?
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| Sep 4, 2015 at 10:14 | comment | added | Jamie Hanrahan | You would be much better off just putting a pagefile on your SSD. Windows will not use it if it doesn't have to. Putting a pagefile on a RAMdisk is ridiculous. Yes, page faults to that "file" will be resolved faster than if they were on a real disk, but by assigning the RAM to the RAMdisk in the first place, you are increasing the number of page faults. It's like borrowing money from yourself, charging yourself interest, and throwing the "interest" away. It isn't even wrong. | |
| Feb 7, 2015 at 22:48 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |