Solved Memory settings in windows?

[blueblackwow65]

With 8 gigs ram and running windows 10 pro, what is the best setting for virtual memory? Windows puts it at 512mb, it recommends 1919mb ,I would go higher.I have a dual core pentium processorrunning at 3.2.THks

 

[Winter Soldier]

As a general rule, the size of the swap file is 1.5 times compared to RAM memory. So, with 4 GB of RAM, the limit of the swap file will be 6144 MB (1024 x 4 x 1.5).

With 8 GB of RAM, in your case, you could agree to turn off the swap file, if you do not use hibernation.

 

[brambedkar59]

With 8 gigs ram and running windows 10 pro, what is the best setting for virtual memory? Windows puts it at 512mb, it recommends 1919mb ,I would go higher.I have a dual core pentium processorrunning at 3.2.THks

Latest windows os is pretty smart in memory management and increasing virtual memory manually will not improve system performance. Let windows handle that for you.

 

[blueblackwow65]

I left it at 1919 for now.

 

[blueblackwow65]

As a general rule, the size of the swap file is 1.5 times compared to RAM memory. So, with 4 GB of RAM, the limit of the swap file will be 6144 MB (1024 x 4 x 1.5).

With 8 GB of RAM, in your case, you could agree to turn off the swap file, if you do not use hibernation.

so 12gigs swap file ,way too much I would guess,I have tried no swap file in the past ,alot of bluescreens

 

[brambedkar59]

so 12gigs swap file ,way too much I would guess,I have tried no swap file in the past ,alot of bluescreens

Disabling pagefile is not worth the risk as the only thing you gain is some extra hdd space.

 

[S3cur1ty 3nthu5145t]

I left it at 1919 for now.

Set this recommended amount as your "MINIMUM" and then chose an amount for the "Maximum".
With 8GB of Ram, your Maximum should be at least if not more then 4096 "4gb" for 64 bit system, and 2048 "2gb" for a 32 bit system.

 

[Winter Soldier]

so 12gigs swap file ,way too much I would guess,I have tried no swap file in the past ,alot of bluescreens

Indeed 12 GB is too much, that is why you may disable the swap, I tried time ago and no BSOD, it is strange you got it, but it can happen.
At this point I also would like to suggest the default settings.