![]() in 5 years you'd probably buy 2-4 TB SSDs and laugh thinking you think you were worried about the 240-512 GB SSDs endurance. even a TLC drive with 100 TBW will last 5-10 years with 10+ GB writes a day to the page file. The argument that it hurts a SSD is stupid. Also, from time to time I use a RAM drive to speed things up (generation of thumbnails, downloading a web site with lots of pages, indexing lots of text etc - stuff that requires lots of seeking and repeated read/writes works faster in a ram drive) and ram drives will lock portions of ram from applications, so having a page file helps not crash those applications when there's no available free ram. The 4 GB page file on the SSD is barely accessed, but should there ever be need for it, I know it's there and applications won't crash due to lack of memory. I have a page file that's set as fixed size (4 GB) on my SSD and a secondary (around 12 GB) on a mechanical drive. Should I alter my workflow and my life just to disable page file? That's stupid. What do you think would happen if I start a video game that uses more than 5-6 GB of memory and I had no swap file? Either the game would constantly hang to load stuff from drive because it can't cache everything in ram, or I'd get warnings from the operating system saying "some application will have to be closed to free memory" and I don't want random firefox processes to be killed for the game. So 9 GB are currently used, out of 16 GB. Besides Firefox, there's a VPN connection to my work, an Adobe Acrobat reader opened, and a bittorrent client. That's just Firefox with two windows (dual monitor) each with around 10-15 tabs, that I use almost daily so I can't / don't want to close. But it is not a good solution for remoting in over the internet as you need open ports to work and a rather fast internet connection to work well. These classical VNC clients/servers are pretty fast and responsive on a fast local Ethernet connection. But for remoting into local machine in the same LAN i just use ultraVNC (or on linux x11vnc) to create a free no bullshit VNC server on the remote machine. Completely free and without limits and the setup is very simple as long as you already have a google account. Then any browser can visit this website, login using the same google account and remote desktop into the machine from inside the browser. Its a separate installable windows program that remebers your google login ID. Unlike what the name would suggest it does not require the Chrome browser to work. It lets you connect to a remote PC over the internet and behind firewalls and supports file transfers between the machines. ![]() This Chrome Remote Desktop does the same job as TeamViewer. My preferred option for remote desktop these days is Google Chrome Remote Desktop: I found it as an alternative when TeamViewer started kicking me off after 30 seconds of use (an attempt to force me into buying a license). ![]() If I leave it running for hours, it doe self die occasionally just from poor coding practices.) Teamviewer may be functional and server a purpose, this doesn't mean it isn't programmed like a piece of crap continuously eating away at system memory slowly but surely. Next, my desktop calculator will need 1 gigabyte with a 1tb HD swapfile, if not, I must be in the stone age. ![]() When I used to have 2 functional registered version of VNC, they never ate up more than 20 megabytes, not 400.They were also faster than TeamViewer. (BTW, what's with the the other forum member commenters dummy comments about me wanting a compact viewer which doesn't hog HUNDREDS of MEGABYTES just to remote view a 8 megabyte display. ![]() Where can I get keys for the old version 5.xx I use. Even after un-installing and re-installing, somehow my laptop is registered, but my main system will not allow installation. VNC actually installs and serves on my laptop, but I need it on my main system where it demands a 'key' to install. ![]()
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