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#64275 12-Jul-2010 15:22
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Hi All, 

ive done a search but couldn't find much info regarding my type of situation...

My partner Jane is a photographer and these questions are regarding the PC that she uses for editing etc...
she spends around 10 hours per day at this computer so its fairly highly used.

 Jane just bought lightroom 3 the other day and at the same time did a little bit of an upgrade on the hardware

I threw in some more RAM and an SSD to install the OS on

so she is now running 8GB DDR3 ram, e8400 CPU, 40gb intel SSD, 1tb seagate 7200rpm for data and backs up client data on the NAS
the OS is win7 x64 to take advantage of the extra ram etc...

next on the upgrade list is a new motherboard and an i7 cpu but thats a few months down the track

ive installed windows on the SSD but prettymuch all the other apps are on the other drive as the SSD is space limited.

my question is with the amout of ram i have and the fact that windows is located on an SSD what are your thoughts around pagefile?

she is a heavy user and often has firefox/outlook2010/lightroom/photoshop cs4 open all at the same time all day chewing up loads of resource...

so disable all together? some on C and a bigger on on D? leave how it is?


cheers for your help :)

Sam 

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k1wi
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  #350342 12-Jul-2010 17:21
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You need to monitor your RAM usage before you go disabling your Pagefile.

If you find she's running close to the top, and trust me, all those apps are RAM HOGS, you would be better to keep the page file.

If you find that she has a decent amount of spare RAM then go for it.

The downside with running without a pagefile (as I do with the computer I'm writing this on) is that if you run out of RAM, the whole thing crashes. Secondly, if your pagefile is on your SSD then you might find that the performance drop of using a pagefile is much lower than using a traditional disk with low I/O and high latencies...

I know of some people who recommend always having a page file, but I'm not convinced of their argument. But it is a point of view that I must state in any event.

k1wi

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