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by Kenji 3928 days ago
Is memory shortage really a problem these days? Frankly, if you have like 12-16GB of RAM, which is realistic even for notebooks, and you don't have 200 browser tabs open or work on very special tasks, you'll never fill that RAM. In fact, I've been running Windows 7 with paging disabled (no pagefile to lessen SSD wear. Turns out that was not necessary since you'd have to page astronomic amounts to wear it noticeably) for years and never had a problem. I mean, yeah, he mentioned 1GB Ram tablets, I see the point there.

Overall very informative and he's good at explaining. At first I thought the concept was stupid but it's actually clever. Also: "If you have enough memory [...] nothing is gonna get compressed either." So it's not like this slows you down if you don't have to worry about memory size (like me).
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tjoff 3928 days ago
Yes, and it's becoming worse for each year. Ultrabooks has at best 8 GB but 4 GB is the norm (at least last time I looked). And if you look at Surface Pro etc. 4 GB is the norm and 2 GB is mainstream. I might be 6 months out of date or something but regardless the current state is quite appalling. I'm writing this on a computer from 2008, and it has 8 GB of ram (and I've never updated it, I would have done it if the motherboard supported more)...
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yuhong 3928 days ago
Win10's OEM licensing is forcing the restart of 2GB DDR3 module production: http://www.dramexchange.com/WeeklyResearch/Post/2/4118.html
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ionised 3926 days ago
> In fact, I've been running Windows 7 with paging disabled.

You should never disable the page file, no matter how much physical memory you have. Just set it to system managed and it will usuyally sit around 1-2Gb usage.

For explanations as to why you shouldn't disable it;

https://superuser.com/questions/810170/should-i-disable-swap...

https://serverfault.com/questions/23621/any-benefit-or-detri...

http://www.howtogeek.com/126430/htg-explains-what-is-the-win...

The way windows handles virtual memory hasn't changed much up to Windows 7. Windows 10 changes it up a bit but you still shouldn't be disabling it completely.

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