Re: Page file location and size?
- From: "RJK" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:55:50 +0100
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have two 750 GB drives on this Quad Core (2.66 GHz), 4 GB PC
(running under XP Pro). I have just one Page file, on the non-OS
drive. Its Properties are currently:
Recommended: 4989 MB
Currently allocated: 4080 MB
Does that look OK please? Am I right that
- performance might be marginally better by keeping the page file off
the OS drive?
- 4 GB is more than generous for the size, despite the recommendation
of 5 GB?
- a fixed size is probably better than a varying one?
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK
I think it was, (quite a few years ago), on Jim Eshelman's site
www.aumha.org, who advised setting a minimum 60mb swap file on the boot
drive, (oooh!...I wonder if that was W98se advice?), and a full size, (1.5
times RAM size), system managed swap file on the first partition of another
hd, (e.g. 2nd hd). I've used this arrangement for many years. Makes for
several improvements in hd responsiveness and performance under quite a
range of conditions. I gave up trying to make the larger pagefile.sys on
my 2nd hd stay in the same place, (by setting it as fixed size = 1.5 times
the size of available RAM), ...several offline defrag's during that
particular fight !!
....or that could have been me switching on, or off, then on again
hibernation !! ...perhaps it was hiberfil.sys that was moving around !
regards, Richard
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