Re: virtual memory

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"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Configuring paging files for optimization and recovery in Windows Server
2003, in Windows 2000, and in Windows NT
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197379/



I'd say to go with what the article said.

However:
I've run some experiements to see if it made any difference which drive the
pagefile
was on and could not see any noticible difference

I suggested you put the page file on the same drive as you OS
because you seem to have very little free space on your 2nd drive...

If you had more free space there, I would have told you to just leave it
where it is, but simply increase the size

At any rate, for best results you should see about adding soem RAM



John

DL wrote:
Peoples have all sorts of technical opinions on the page file location,
but
I must confess I've not seen any MS reccomendation that the page file be
located on seperate hd to the system.
Generally the page file should be set to system managed, and generally
has a
max size is 1.5*ram
BTW as philo states bumping up your ram to 512mb would likely lead to a
wonderous result.
260mb ram? do you have onboard graphics which is utilising sys ram?
Also is your file system NTFS?

"Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your very prompt response.

Technical question: the HELP section says to avoid placing pagefile.sys
on
the same hard drive as one's system files. I would imagine that the
vast
majority of users only have one hard drive, but where there may be a
second
drive, your comment implies that you nonetheless prefer to place it on
the
same drive as where the system files are located.

What might be your rationale, or might your response be too technical
for
a
non-tech to comprehend? !

Thanks again.

GGB


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"Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I write a lot of Word programs (Office 2000) in which I am inserting

photos,

etc. Of late, I am receiving virtual memory warnings, the system
saying
that I am low on virtual memory, and that it is going to have to

increase

same. My programs are not terminated, however.

I have a 200 gig hard drive (C:) with 260 MB of RAM. There is 87%
free
space, and my Word files are only a few meg, or so, in size. Virtual

memory

on my C drive is set for 400-450 MB.

I read in the HELP section that the pagefile.sys should preferably not

be

located on the same drive with other system files. Since I have
another
hard drive (E: 4 gig free), I set up a file on that drive (450-500
MB).

I

have not had the problem since, but somehow this seems like a great

waste

of

system resources.

Should the pagefile on the C drive be set to zero? Or, is something

else

creating the virtual memory warnings?

Thanks in advance for all comments.

Regards,

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas




I'd put it back on the same drive as your OS
but set the maximum size up to perhaps 800 megs

BTW: it would not hurt to bump your RAM up to at least 512 megs









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