Hi
It isn't the ram you are increasing but the amount of the hard disk set aside for file swapping.
It's preferable to get your ram to do it since it's much faster.
Some people use to advocate having a lot of ram and no swap file, forcing Windows to use only the ram.
And it used to be recommended that you put the swap file on a separate hard drive or partition then Windows.
But, I really don't know if any of that applies anymore.
The standard used to be to set the swap file to 1.5 times as much as the ram you have installed.
Probably now days it's better to just set it to let Windows handle it.
I think it's unlikely that you will see a real improvement in performance by increasing the size any more.
Mike
PS. Interestingly I just checked fragmentation on my C:\ drive.
It is 14% fragmented and the only fragmented file is the page file, which never gets defragmented.
I know the way to fix this is to select, "No Page File" and then defrag the disk.
Once it's done you can reinstate the Page File, again.
PS2. I did the above and my drive now shows 0% fragmentation and the Page File is contiguous, instead of being broken into a number of different drive locations.
I note that Windows set the max page file size to the same as the ram I have 32 Gigabytes on it's own.
It does seem like I'm seeing a slightly snappier performance.
That may just be the power of positive thinking. LOL
PS3. I use Defraggler for drive defragmentation.