Re: Page Files.

Thanks for the reply.

I was just editing a video file with Pinnacle and noticed that the Pagefile
size PEAK was 1.44 GB! While Ram usage (again Peak) for Pinnacle was 684mb.
This makes no sense at all.I just got off the phone with Pinnacle and they
tell me to increase the Pagefile, place pagefiles on MULTIPLE drives and of
course ADD more Ram. Well XP won't use more than 4GB or ram so that does no
good. However, they tell me that XP will use up to 8GB of ram. I've been an
MCSE and MCT for 25 years and I know that to be a bogus statement!

So, I ran Photoshop CS2, took an image file that was 1600x1200. I doubled
the image size, Despeckled the image (takes a lot of ram to do this), double
the size again and diffused it. Ram usage was around 712 mb, while my disk
drives were thrashing like all hell. I mean really thrashing. I called Adobe
and they pretty much indicated the same as Pinnacle.

My ram is in two 1GB sticks (I know this to be a better config than
4x512mb - latency timing etc.)

My vid card has 1Gb or ram and it is not shared. This was another thing that
Pinnacle and Adobe wanted me to check.

So I'm really confused as to why the pagefile PEAK is so high. Could it be
that I have TOO much Pagefile space/ This was one of the points I found in a
Google.

Also, the Raided Drives are SATA. As for drive optimization, when I
installed the drives about 6 months ago, I formatted the drives to conform
to the type of data they would contain. For example, Drive E is used for
WinTV PVR captures and is FAT32 formatted . This is the recommendation of
Ulead, Pinnacle and Sony for video capturing.

This system (particularly the data drives as the OS drive doesn't really
change a lot) is defragged twice weekly. I've found this to be the best
cycle to do so. As the video files are typically 1gb to 2gb and I analyze
the files before a defrag so as to exclude them from the process.

My next step (just for curiosity) is to move all the data from drive E to an
external drive and reformat then put back.

Hmmm.

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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With your RAM, I'd suspect little traffic on the Pagefile. You really
don't
need a Pagefile on each of your 3 physical drives/volumes.You'd want the
Pagefile on the 1st Logical partition of one of the non-System drives. I'd
also redirect Temp variables and other "Scratch/Workspace" folders to that
same secondary drive.

In some cases it might be beneficial to have a dedicated (SATA) controller
and drive for just those purposes.

Are these RAID arrays built with traditional PATA technology drives or w/
SATA ? Also have you done any benchmarking to make sure the drives
are running at optimal throughputs ?



"Bubba" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just a general question regarding page files.

Errata:

1) My system has three physical hard disks, (C,D,E). On drive C (sys vol)
I have a page file of 64 mb. I don't really want any paging on this drive
as it contains the OS and I only want to accomodate the crach log
requirements,
2) Data Drives D & E, System Managed (currenly 3072mb each),
3) 2 GB of ram (and other stuff).

The Data drives are 10K RPM - 500GB mirrored volumes (hardware Raid).

I've noticed that sometimes the system is slowwww! I mean a simple dble
click on a jpeg brings up Pic and Fax Viewer. I then may go into
Photosshop cs2 do some editing etc. Then exit (the adobe cleanup manager
runs and sometimes stays in memory - but this is an issue for Adobe).

I have a scheduled restart that occurs every day at 6:00.

This really seems to help, until sometime later. I should also mention
that this is a high end multi-media system with WinTV PVR, Snapstream,
Pinnacle etc. (All of which are memory pigs).

In any case, is there a better solution to optimize pagefiles? For
example, just put a pagefile on one of the secondary disks.

Thanks.







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