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Originally Posted by ramicio 
Programs that "require" a page file are poorly written, and IMO no program should have that level of access to know what's going on in the system. Programs of the nature of needing large amounts of memory should allocate their own swap space on disk after a set amount of RAM is taken up. I haven't used a page file since SSDs came out and I've never had a single application bug me about it, nor have I ever run out of memory...and I'm only on 16 GB. What isn't "wise" is going around telling everyone that they shouldn't disable their page file. I say try it out. Putting it on a RAM disk is just stupid.
Programs that "require" a page file are poorly written, and IMO no program should have that level of access to know what's going on in the system. Programs of the nature of needing large amounts of memory should allocate their own swap space on disk after a set amount of RAM is taken up. I haven't used a page file since SSDs came out and I've never had a single application bug me about it, nor have I ever run out of memory...and I'm only on 16 GB. What isn't "wise" is going around telling everyone that they shouldn't disable their page file. I say try it out. Putting it on a RAM disk is just stupid.
What would be ideal in a perfect world and what happens in reality are two different things. That's like complaining about all applications not perfectly scaling with more cores so that IPC shouldn't even matter to consumers. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world where every program is perfectly designed.
Not running into these errors while having a page file disabled just means you haven't used any of these apps that throw a fit when there is none. I disable the page file frequently, enjoying the smoothness it provides but ultimately end up having to re-enable it whenever I run into one of these apps. Now go ask Mark Russinovich if it's wise to permanently disable the pagefile and he'll also tell you that it's ridiculous. Go read the Tom's Hardware article on why you shouldn't disable the pagefile if you're looking for more examples on why it isn't wise to tell people to disable the pagefile indefinitely.
Right now my pagefile is disabled but when I want to go play MechWarrior Online, I'll go back and re-enable it. It'll be put on my RAMDisk of course though, to prevent micro-stuttering.
Edited by Wonky Sausage - 11/10/12 at 9:54pm
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