Windows 7 ramdisk pagefile

Saga Lout Olde English Moderator. Mar 31, 23, 67, 1, Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums. As PhilFrisbie says, it can't be done. One workaround would be to dispose of the pagefile altogether but what's wrong with putting it on D: or creating a small Partition just for the swap in the way Linux does?

Would you know if this is also true for Win7, or is it just XP? Jul 8, 13, 57 42, The Superspeed website says it provides "system page file support", I wonder what that means. I believe you are correct. If I start with no pagefile, I can create it on the Ramdisk, but as soon as I reboot, it ends up on c: even though the settings still indicate it is on the Ramdisk. I sent an email to their tech support, maybe there's a workaround?

Saga Lout :. Nov 16, 1 0 10 0. My commit charge runs 2 to 4 GB and no paging delays. The registry has to be set to partition and format the ramdisk for each boot.

It all automated with batch files. See neowin forum thread for details. You must log in or register to reply here. Post thread. Question How much space does motherboard takes? Question Lets have a bit of fun Windows The caveat is when all users simultaneously start using more virtual memory than existing physical host memory. In this case vSphere will compress and then host swap to disk, degrading performance for all virtual desktops on the host.

In the ideal world the administrator have carefully measure memory utilization and know the applications that users commonly use. In this case the administrator should be able to size Windows RAM properly, without having to enable pagefile. In my work life experience I have seen organizations successfully running virtual desktop without pagefile.

For VMware View Premier and vSphere Desktop Edition there is no additional licensing costs for assigning additional virtual memory to virtual desktops. This article was first published by Andre Leibovici andreleibovici at myvirtualcloud. Visit myvirtualcloud. Skip to comment form. Another great article, Andre. I had been wondering about this myself, and typically opt to use a page file while also taking advantage of the savings with TPS. I love reading articles that think outside of the box.

Thanks for continuing to put out quality work Andre. The result will be the same with less complexity. If each of those VMs had pagefiles writing to disk as well as normal operations IOs those disks would be going crazy.

Average users barely break the 2GB mark so giving them 4GB top end which they never hit. PageFiles in my mind are left over from an era where memory was expensive. Those days are long gone. An old, but still a valuable article I return to. We then encountered a number of PCoIP session disconnects. I then noticed in the Windows Event Log that at the time of incident there were warnings of low Virtual Memory pagefile.

I road-tested the scenario and found with a larger pagefile Windows seemed to be using available memory more and sustaining itself better. Type swapadd without parameters on command prompt. Otherwise, put both lines in one cmd script and schedule that cmd script instead. That way you ensure that swapadd does not run before imdisk has finished creating the virtual disk. Posted 06 August - PM yes it is created, i see it.

If it annoys too much there is, if i recall correctly, a registry tweak that disables that particular error message. I cannot remember where I read about it though. I have never tested myself. Posted 06 August - PM thanks for quick response! I have the same configuration - system is windows 7 x But ram disk is not available after system starts. When I am running task manually its work. What could be a problem? Edited by Hercule18, 12 September - PM. Posted 13 September - AM Have you checked with "swapadd" tool and see which pagefiles exist and which of them Windows is using?

Posted 13 September - PM Looks allright then. No swap needed for the moment. Swap usage will be higher when more swap space is needed. Posted 13 September - PM Hi, The problem, is that I have an error message telling that no pagefile is created and that windows will make an temporary pagefile. And effectively I have a pagefile created on C: of 8Go, whereas non should be created.

Posted 13 September - PM That is much of a non-problem. That message is always shown if Windows cannot automatically create a swapfile at system startup. There is a registry tweak mentioned somewhere that can be used to disable that message. Search this forum and cd. It was posted somewhere like that. The system will primarily use the fastest swapfile so there should be no problem with your settings.

Posted 13 September - PM Windows cannot automatically create a swapfile at system startup Hmmm So what is this huge 8GB file created on my C drive called pagefile. Posted 13 September - PM Hmmm