100% paging file usage despite ram available

[Alexgopen]

Hi, this is my first post here so I'm not entirely sure that this is the right section, but it seems suitable for this question.

I have 16gb of ram, and a 18gb paging file on my SSD, but the paging file is always at 100% usage despite there being ram available. Is this normal?

Also, I know that frequent read/writes to an SSD can shorten its lifespan, but posts I read about using paging files on modern SSDs stated that it shouldn't be as much of a concern anymore so long as you have enough ram. Well I imagine 16gb of ram should be enough, but nevertheless the paging file is at 100% usage all the time, so I imagine this can't be good for my SSD. Do you recommend I disable the paging file, and if so, how much would that affect my performance and stability?

Specs as follows:
Windows 10
i5 4690k
GTX 980
16gb DDR3
1tb Samsung 850 evo

 

[alceryes]

Don't disable the pagefile. Windows will use it regardless of how much RAM you have.
What are you doing on the system to make it use 11.5GB Ram? How is the system normally used?

 

[Alexgopen]

Don't disable the pagefile. Windows will use it regardless of how much RAM you have.
What are you doing on the system to make it use 11.5GB Ram? How is the system normally used?

At the time of that screenshot I was running Black Desert Online, League of Legends, Firefox with many tabs open including dozens of Youtube videos and a twitch stream, Discord, and Steam.

This is pretty typical of how I use my computer.

 

[alceryes]

If you want to make the pagefile more efficient set it to a static (min and max) size of 16641MB (16GB + 257MB for dump and header) and forget about it.
What you've read about newer SSDs is correct. Don't worry about wearing it out.

 

[madmatt30]

Drop the paging file down to 1gb manually is my advice.

You should never use close to 16gb ram with what you're doing.

& no it shouldn't be using 18gb of space continually at all.

 

[alceryes]

A good read - https://support.microsoft.com/en-hk/help/2860880/how-to-determine-the-appropriate-page-file-size-for-64-bit-versions-of

Dropping down to 1GB (or disabling completely) will NOT make your system faster and could cause issues. Some applications will specifically use the pagefile, regardless of how much free RAM is available.