Re: Any Reason To NOT Clear Paging File on Reboot?

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:00:14 +0100

Jim wrote:

>
>Folks, the point is being missed here. Once you start hitting the paging
>file, finding ways to "optimize" it is like rearranging the deck chairs on
>the Titanic, a useless exercise. Instead, you need a "lifeboat", or in this
>case, MORE RAM!!!

The point though is that in such sizes of RAM you are not actually
having any traffic on the file at all. I regard it as pointless to tie
up RAM (which is not *zero* cost) simply to provide somewhere to assign
the very large allocations of memory space that programs demand, but
never bring into use. Those can easily amount to several hundreds of
MB, and the potential page file space represented by the difference
between a (low) Initial and (high) Max size makes a happy home for them
- the file will never (or very rarely) come into actual existence 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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