Should I change page file RAM to 1.5 times on SSD

[NotSoSavvyTechGuy]

Ok so I'm in compter class and my teacher has been in the computer field for a long time. He says you should increase the Page file to 1.5 times your RAM to speed up your PC but I've seen other people say it will slow it down. On another note some have said it will slow it down unless you have an SSD but again others then say that will shorten the live of the SSD. Any notes, comments and also I don't remember what he said for min being 1.5 times is max. Oh I almost forgot some even say turn off page file on SSD or new computers. (Note when he said to increase the page file to 1.5 times of RAM (i.e. 1gig to 1.5 gig) he was talking about our laptops which is only HDD

 

[kanewolf]

That was common when large amounts of RAM weren't common. If you have 8GB RAM or more then you don't need to do this. Generally an 8GB pagefile is enough for most situations. You don't want to have your system use swap space anyway. Swapping is REALLY slow.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I agree with Kanewolf, sometimes these old teachers aren't always up-to-date.

 

[nukemaster]

Keeping a small page file is at least helpful for programs that want to use it instead of memory. Some page file is also require for Windows to create a dump file if you get a blue screen.

1.5 x was a general rule so that at the very least you could swap out all kinds of things if needed.

It is true that SSDs have limited program erase(writes), but the page file tends to be large writes with many small reads making SSDs suited to this type of work. Plenty of software is MUCH harder on an SSD than the page file. anything that writes constant logs creates many small writes to the drive. I would redirect this kind of thing before removing the page file fully.

I do not think 1.5 x is needed unless you have software that REQUIRES use of the page file.

I have 4 gigabytes set on my systems with SSDs without any negative side effects. The systems in question have 8(used to be 4 a few years back)gigabytes of memory and the other 16gigabytes of memory.