Windows 7 Virtual Memory/Paging File?

[pbastiaans]

The Facts:

Windows 7 64 BIT 6GB Reserved Memory

No Paging File on the Guest OS

Non-Persistent Clones

Office 2016 as an app stack not part of the reference image

Issue described below is not reproducible on demand

The symptom:

Excel users report infrequent crash/freeze with particular spreadsheets

My gut/experience:

1. The Excel file is wonky/has old deprecated code
2. Anti Virus (Trend on hosts)
3. Network issues (these Excel files reach out to the network)

My question:

Paging file? I've been told by instructor to avoid using a paging file. The Googles are all over the place on paging files.

Does anyone have an opinion/real world experience with 'on or off' virtual memory/page file?

Thank you!

[BenFB]

I unfortunately don't have a answer to this but would like to know if you get one. We've seen some issues where VMs are doing a lot of paging when there is sufficient memory and have considered disabling the page file.

[pbastiaans]

During a Horizon training, the instructor advised disabling the Windows 7 virtual memory AND making the memory assigned to the VM reserved.

I don't believe the issue we are experiencing is related to the Win 7 page file (we've gone without it for 8 mos.), I've been watching the end users VM with VROPS

[pbastiaans · Accepted solution]

Update:

Appears this may be related to a Windows update:

KB4018319 needed the following non-security update

KB4011128

[pbastiaans]

As this was post originally was in regards to paging file:

We do not use a paging file, we reserve the memory and do not experience performance issues (that we admins know of), this issue (Excel crashing) was resolved by the updates marked as 'Correct Answer'.