I would like to ask experts that What is the optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10 and how you calculate?
I know the system says 1906 MB is recommended but is it enough or I should set it more?
Currently, my Virtual Memory size is 12 GB by the way but I feel it is useless.
Thanks in advance!
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Sep 13, 2017 Virtual Memory or Page File size can be viewed/modified through System Properties Advanced tab Performance Settings Advanced tab Virtual Memory section (left screenshot, below). Perhaps t he best decision is to allow the system to manage this for itself. The modules in the Sharable working set are not shown in the Resource Monitor. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings. Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, click Change. Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box. Under DriveVolume Label, click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.
Automatic Method
Windows 10 automatically manages the pagefile for your computer's configuration and the amount of RAM present in it—I'd suggest allowing the Windows OS to dynamically manage this if possible.
The minimum and maximum size of the Pagefile can be up to 1.5 times and 4 times of the physical memory that your computer has respectively. For example, if your computer has 1 GB of RAM, the minimum Pagefile size can be 1.5 GB, and the maximum size of the file can be 4 GB.
Manual Method
To calculate the 'general rule' recommended size of virtual memory in Windows 10 per the 8 GB your system has, here's the equation 1024 x 8 x 1.5 = 12288 MB. So it sounds as if the 12 GB configured in your system currently is correct so when or if Windows needs to utilize the virtual memory, the 12 GB should suffice.
As a general rule, the maximum size of the paging file must be x1.5 the amount of RAM installed. Thus for a PC running with 4GB of RAM, the maximum size of the swap file will be 1024 x 4 x 1.5 Mb.
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