Increasing The Paging File Size In Vista
Posted on August 2, 2008 – 9:14 am by admin
Just a word of warning, I really don’t know what I am talking about in this post. I gathered some fragments and decided to talk about them.
Ok, since I have been using this new computer, I have had a little issue. When the computer would go into sleep mode, things would be normal. When I would shake the mouse to wake the computer up, sometimes it would hang. After a while, I would get the blue screen that gave me an error. It was “kernel_data_inpage_error.” After the blue screen, the computer would automatically (after a dew seconds) go to the welcome screen and then start as normal. When it started, I would get the normal error box that pops up in Windows that told me the computer didn’t shut down properly and asks if I would like to report this to Microsoft.
Last night, I decided to call Dell support. I spoke with a guy who used a program to take over my computer so he could check some stuff out. He said that it was most likely a driver that was causing the issue. He then checked the paging file size. Reminder…I am running Windows Vista Ultimate. He said, “Hmmm, this is probably causing the problem.” I didn’t get a good look at it, but I believe the paging file size was too small. He increased it to 1000-6000 and things seem to be running smoothly.
After a few minutes, I realized that this computer is now much, much faster. I am assuming this has something to do with the paging file size. Now, it feels like I am working on the computer I bought.
2 Responses to “Increasing The Paging File Size In Vista”
By Joe on Aug 3, 2008 | Reply
I can clarify why for you.
Pagefile is hard drive space that is used as RAM. Your computer uses your RAM, and when you run out or need more than you have, it starts to use the pagefile. If you use all your set pagefile, then it craps out and restarts. The reason it seems faster is probably because its caching things in the pagefile now that it knows it has enough space.
If this were XP and you have 4GB like I do, then you dont need pagefile. Remember, hard drives run in millisecons, RAM runs in nanoseconds. The more you can keep in RAM the better.