Pagefile Size on M.2 SSD with 64GB RAM?
Pagefile Size on M.2 SSD with 64GB RAM?
Unless your application demands huge memory capacity, 96 GB of swap with only 64 GB of RAM isn’t necessary. As @Kilrah mentioned, you might even disable it completely. For speed, retaining a modest swap size can be advantageous—it lets the OS shift inactive background tasks to swap space, freeing up physical memory for active apps. The impact on performance will vary based on total RAM usage by your programs and how often they allocate large chunks at once, such as when editing files.
I wouldn't turn it off since Windows is Windows and handles things beyond human understanding. Just keep it at the default settings.
Pagefile serves as a backup when RAM becomes full, though it rarely actually runs out. Windows sometimes moves files there for random operations, assuming they’re safe enough to store elsewhere.