Quote Originally Posted by Hachoo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=174634#post17 4634]I'm not saying it won't run good, I'm saying it can and will eventually cause performance problems over having a small paging file. If you don't believe me go read the many articles from kernel developers and other big names in operating systems for information.[/quote]
I always believed this too but just last week I was surprised to see a comment by Pavel Lebedinsky who works on the memory manager portion of the operating system at Microsoft. He wrote:

[quote='Pavel Lebedinsky
3. Configuring a system with lots of RAM to run without pagefile may have either negative or positive perf impact depending on what the system is doing.
Lebedinsky has a lot of interesting things to say about Windows memory management but he says them in comments on other people's blogs so you have to look for them with Google.

Someplace else he points out that even if you disable the page file, Windows will still page (i.e. still do page faulting) because some virtual memory is backed by other files.

The quote is from a comment attached to this blog article about virtual memory by Mark Russinovich (which is very interesting in its own right):

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussino...7/3155406.aspx