Finally - a modern, solid article on benchmarking different Windows paging scenarios:
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-optimise...
Nice to know I haven't been crazy for the last 15 years....
And a discussion thread on particularly disabling paging, too, I can agree with the concept of turning off paging completely causing excessive disk wear. We see "premature" failures every week on Vista machines, particularly laptops (likely exacerbated by heat), and those are OEM Set Paging sizes, usually:
http://superuser.com/questions/14795/windows-swap-page-file-enable-or-di...
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