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<blockquote data-quote="and-81" data-source="post: 200005" data-attributes="member: 11844">There is no proven performance benefit in disabling the page file.&nbsp; There is one proven risk: running out of memory.Many people have reported very strange behaviour from their system after disabling the page file.&nbsp; And lots of experts who have made the decision to disable their page file have then turned it back on.For example, <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000422.html" target="_blank">Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror</a> did it, and then switched it back on after numerous unexplained phenomenon.Basically, if a program requests more memory than is available it will fail if there is no page file.&nbsp; Lots of applications fail gracefully, but there are a lot that fail in strange and unpredictable ways.I'm not saying it can't be done.&nbsp; You are proof that you can run without a page file.&nbsp; And lots of people do.&nbsp; But it's a risk.&nbsp; And that risk needs to be known when you make the suggestion.Consider this.&nbsp; User X disables their page file.&nbsp; 2 months later User X installs TV Engine 3.&nbsp; All of a sudden there are strange errors happening.&nbsp; How long before User X figures out it's the missing page file causing the problem?Just out of curiosity, how much ram do you have?Cheers,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="and-81, post: 200005, member: 11844"] There is no proven performance benefit in disabling the page file. There is one proven risk: running out of memory. Many people have reported very strange behaviour from their system after disabling the page file. And lots of experts who have made the decision to disable their page file have then turned it back on. For example, [url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000422.html]Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror[/url] did it, and then switched it back on after numerous unexplained phenomenon. Basically, if a program requests more memory than is available it will fail if there is no page file. Lots of applications fail gracefully, but there are a lot that fail in strange and unpredictable ways. I'm not saying it can't be done. You are proof that you can run without a page file. And lots of people do. But it's a risk. And that risk needs to be known when you make the suggestion. Consider this. User X disables their page file. 2 months later User X installs TV Engine 3. All of a sudden there are strange errors happening. How long before User X figures out it's the missing page file causing the problem? Just out of curiosity, how much ram do you have? Cheers, [/QUOTE]

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