• For such huge RAM requirements then agreed, you don't need nor want a full dump, so set the size to that required by the dump but then leave it as system managed to enable future exapansion if required.

    As for Windows not needing a pagefile. It doesn't need lots of things but can work a lot better with them. Why artificially constrain the job of the memory manager by not allowing it to manage the pagefile as it sees fit.