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| mariush:
That's just Firefox with two windows (dual monitor) each with around 10-15 tabs, that I use almost daily so I can't / don't want to close. Besides Firefox, there's a VPN connection to my work, an Adobe Acrobat reader opened, and a bittorrent client ... So 9 GB are currently used, out of 16 GB... What do you think would happen if I start a video game that uses more than 5-6 GB of memory and I had no swap file? Either the game would constantly hang to load stuff from drive because it can't cache everything in ram, or I'd get warnings from the operating system saying "some application will have to be closed to free memory" and I don't want random firefox processes to be killed for the game. Should I alter my workflow and my life just to disable page file? That's stupid. I have a page file that's set as fixed size (4 GB) on my SSD and a secondary (around 12 GB) on a mechanical drive. The 4 GB page file on the SSD is barely accessed, but should there ever be need for it, I know it's there and applications won't crash due to lack of memory. Also, from time to time I use a RAM drive to speed things up (generation of thumbnails, downloading a web site with lots of pages, indexing lots of text etc - stuff that requires lots of seeking and repeated read/writes works faster in a ram drive) and ram drives will lock portions of ram from applications, so having a page file helps not crash those applications when there's no available free ram. Yeah, you COULD not use a page file... but it's ridiculous and silly ... just let it be and use a page file. The argument that it hurts a SSD is stupid ... even a TLC drive with 100 TBW will last 5-10 years with 10+ GB writes a day to the page file ... in 5 years you'd probably buy 2-4 TB SSDs and laugh thinking you think you were worried about the 240-512 GB SSDs endurance. My boot drive is a 120 GB Sandisk using MLC memory... wrote 36 TB to it and the average erase count across the flash cells is 309 so there's still loads of life in it. ... MLC flash has around 5000 erases and TLC is down to around 1000-3000 .. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Distinction_between_NOR_and_NAND_flash |
| BrianHG:
LOL, just for the fun of it, I just re-checked Teamviewer in task manager, it is up to 600megabytes.... And increasing... Maybe it's because I'm on a 1GB lan connection and TV just seems to soak up a crap load of data. The ASCII log size is also above a megabyte. A log. Of what? I only connect to 1 PC on my LAN. |
| BrianHG:
An my total across all my Firefox tabs is 600 megabytes too. 1 remote desktop TV = 600mb, 8 firefox tabs =600mb total, everything else almost 300mb. My media player and other stuff going on totals ~300mb. Time to just pay for VNC and f-it. |
| gf:
Why not use Window's native Remote Destop facility directly? The RDP client (mstsc.exe) is can be used generally, w/o restrictions. In Windows 10 Pro, the RDP server is disabled by default and just needs to be enabled. If you need to run the server on the Home edition, or if you need multiple RDP connections to a computer, then you can enable the server via RDP Wrapper which is a free 3rd party program. It is supposed to work with various versions/builds of Windows. |
| Berni:
Yep just use a SSD for a page file. You can get a 512GB SSD on the cheap these days. But but... i don't want to kill my SSD! Flash has limited write cycles! Yeah well... your PC is going to be obsolete before you wear the thing out. As part of a crypto mining adventure i ended up writing about 30TB per day to SSD storage and did this 24/7 for weeks. Even on a low endurance consumer grade SSD this still left plenty of life in it. So a page file is not going to wreck the drive that easily. Also i keep at least 16GB of memory in my machines(some are 32GB), so running out of RAM is never really a problem, even with Firefox gobbling up 5GB just for itself. Plenty of other small software uses up >100MB of memory for itself with no good reason. I hate seeing it in task manager but at the end of the day i don't really care because i never have issues with actually running out. RAM is not all that expensive so i just throw in a bunch of it. Its more of a problem if you hit the motherboards limit on how much RAM it can actually take. |
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