Vista 64/Premiere CS4/32GB Ram Virtual Memory Recommendation

Vista 64
Premiere CS4
32 GB Ram
Here are my current Virtual Memory Settings...
On C:
It is set to "System Managed Size" which has created a ~34GB pagefile.sys file on C:\
On V: (RAID)
It is set to Custom Size, Initial= 16396, Maximum= 32768 which has created a ~16GB pagefile.sys file on V:
Are these settings adequate or overkill?? Any suggestions would be helpful. I still have some occasional blue screens that are unexplained.

Despite some comments you heard previously in this thread, there are a few things about pagefiles to keep in mind.
1. Create a pagefile with a fixed size, min and max being the same. That avoids resizing and thus defragmentation of the file.
2. Keep the pagefile on a separate disk from where most activity takes place, not on the OS disk, not on the media disk, but on a third disk, that can contain other software or data, like audio, downloads or the like as long as you don't access them very frequently.
3. Create the pagefile on the disk when it is still empty, so it is the first file on the disk.
4. It used to be a good rule of thumbs to make the size of the pagefile around 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM.
In your case with 32 GB of RAM you may never need the pagefile (it depends on the software you use, for 3D you may need it) and it depends on the storage that you have available (storage is cheap), but if you create a fixed pagefile of 16 GB you should never run into trouble, nor will you lose much diskspace.
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