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szmarczaktoday at 4:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Settings -> View advanced system settings -> Performance (Settings) -> Advanced -> Virtual memory (Change...) -> No paging file


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tredre3today at 4:26 PM

That's disabling swap, not overcommit. Windows doesn't overcommit. It's one of the reason why it handles low memory situations so much more gracefully than Linux.

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0x1d7today at 4:17 PM

This is almost always a bad idea.

If no memory is available where a page file would make a difference, this leads to application crashes instead. A crash is (usually) worse than paging.

Certain applications, Photoshop being the historical example, will outright fail to run with no page file present.

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