Windows 10, paging file, and SSD vs. HDD

[MRC01]

Strange. I find that in Ubuntu the swappiness setting does make a difference. With it set to zero, "top" reports no swap used until all of RAM is used.
Most servers run Red Hat or CentOS, which may handle it differently.

 

[wwillson]

Most servers run Red Hat or CentOS, which may handle it differently.

Redhat Centos
Redhat Alma

It could be that Redhat changes the MMU to be more swappy, but we have no way of knowing that. We are on 5.x and 6.x is mainline. The 6.x MMU could handle swap differently.

 

[KrisZ]

I would try running windows storage cleaner first. You would be surprised how much old junk and old update files windows keeps.

However, the only real solution is to get a bigger SSD and clone your old one to the new one. You can get a 500gb SSD for $20-$30 these days.

Not sure why people are recommending more RAM. This isn’t pre win Vista era when more ram solved most problems. 12gigs is plenty enough.