Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

Blake Morrison - MSFT — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:42:27 GMT

@Thomas King: If you set Virtual Memory to "No paging file", the "swapfile.sys" along with "pagefile.sys" will be removed. It does not look like you can disable "swapfile.sys" by itself.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

Blake Morrison - MSFT — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:37:05 GMT

@Cristi-M: I could not find a supported way to move "swapfile.sys" to another volume. If I come across a way to do this, I will update this blog.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

Thomas King — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:03:55 GMT

Hi, I'd like to say that I just want to disable this, what can I do to disable the swapfile.sys?

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

Cristi-M — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:52:55 GMT

Hi. Is there any way to move it to another partition ( HDD) ?

Actually I use a dedicated partition for Pagefile, on a fast secondary drive, and I want to move this one to on that partition.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

Chintak Chhapia — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:16:07 GMT

Will there be any new performance counter to track the swap file usage as we have counter to track page file usage?

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: The New Swap File

Miroslav Reisinger — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:39:40 GMT

Hi, could you please explain why could not be pages of modern apps from the modified list written to the page file and swapfile is used instead? I understand the flow of pages being written out to disk but I'm still not getting the reason why not to the page file...Is there some more detailed documentation available? Thanks.