A RAMDisk-backed page file removes useful RAM from the system. It's a net-negative. You're using RAM that would otherwise go towards useful things, like programs or file cache.
Again, if page file usage is a problem, you need more RAM, not less of it and certainly not allocating it to a RAMDisk.
What you're saying should make sense.
However:
32gb ram no pagefile: crashes
28gb + 2gb ramdisk pagefile: no crashes at all
32GB RAM + page file on disk also no crashes. Not all applications will function without a page file, as I said.
There's zero reason to use a RAMDisk for a page file. Stop listening to idiot gamers.
I don't care about ssd lifetime. This is purely an experiment. But you are inadvertently illustrating my point pretty well
I think you're under the false assumption that on Windows the page file is always being thrashed. That isn't how the VMM functions.
SSD "short" life span even from a bunch of 4KiB reads/writes is vastly overstated. Anyone who discusses the page file in terms of SSD lifetime is again, uninformed.
Because the common recommendation is "you need at least a few GB swap". We can change the total ram amount to 64 or 128.