Re: Page file setting?

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

Stan Brown wrote:

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:15:35 -0000 from Gerry Cornell
<gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
The Article has a "COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS CONTENT DISCLAIMER"!

These recommendations are a matter of opinion and not fact. So
technically they are not in error!

Is there no procedure to correct an erroneous community opinion? That
would be worse even than Wikipedia.

I know that nothing should surprise me at Microsoft, but I'd think
they'd want to correct an error that's published under their logo,
disclaimer or no disclaimer.



Personally, although I agree completely with Ron Martell, I don't think this
KB article is as wrong as all that. It clearly doesn't say the page file
*should be* 1.5 times the amount of RAM. With reference to how big the page
file should be, the article says "There is no single answer to this
question, because it depends on the amount of installed RAM and how much
virtual memory that workload requires. If there is no other information
available, the normal recommendation of 1.5 times the amount of RAM in the
computer is a good place to start."

"A good place to start," not "should be." Two very different statements. If
I were writing the article, I would write it somewhat differently, and talk
about how to get more information, rather than what to do in the absence of
information, but the statement there essentially says that if you don't have
any more information, leave the Windows default alone. I think that, as it
stands, that's a hard statement to argue with.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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