Why does the system require a large swap file?

Question

System administration

Greetings! Installed a clean windows 10 pro, installed several programs aida, ccleaner. After a couple of days, I noticed that about 50-60 gb was missing, I could not understand what was the matter until I found pagefile.sys which weighs 57gb, I looked at the virtual memory value that was set to 57 gb at the system's choice, why so much and why ???

Guessing, maybe it's because of 32gb ram?

Answer 1

cccleaner

Correctly, a good user puts malicious software on his computer on his own.

why so many and why???

As much as needs.

Guessing, maybe it's because of 32gb ram?

Exactly.

I looked at the value of virtual memory, which, at the choice of the system, is set to 57 gb

That's impossible! You have a 57gb swap file! How can virtual memory be 57gb? It's unrealistic. Maybe all the same 89GB of virtual memory?

Answer 2

it may be because of your programs - understand them. someone used a hell of a lot of memory.

Answer 3

The size of the paging file is set by the operating system during installation according to a preset like ~1.8 of the amount of RAM. There are no other reasons, no other considerations are involved in this.
I recommend changing the swap file size settings as follows:

• lower limit - 8 GB
  
• upper limit - unlimited
  

If there are several physical disks in the system, then set the lower and upper thresholds to 8GB each in the boot partition, on any partition of the fastest disk (and where you don’t mind the space) - from zero to unlimited, do not apply to the rest.
If there is only one disk, but several partitions, then set the lower and upper thresholds to 8GB each in the boot partition, on some other partition where you don’t mind space - from zero to unlimited, do not apply to the rest.

Answer 4

How much RAM is in the system?
Vidyashka integrated?