Re: What are the benefits of Partitioning HDs and having a dedicated drive partiton for the Swap file?
- From: "Courtney" <a@xxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:48:47 -0600
1. The 4GB limit is sort of a limit of the operating system. Basically, for
a 32-bit OS, you have a limit of 4GB. You get up to 16GB or more on a 64-bit
OS, such as XP64 (but then you run into other problems).
So (you're thinking), why does XP not recognize that I have 4GB? The problem
is that the OS can only address 4GB of memory, regardless of where it is
located. And where is there additional memory? Remember that swap file? That
is included in the total. Additionally, your motherboard takes a tiny bit of
memory for itself.
2 & 3. You could eliminate the swap file, forcing XP to utilize more memory.
However, some programs will not run if the swap file is eliminated. Also,
XPs own memory optimizer requires a swap file to work. By the way, the swap
file works best on the primary partition of the least used drive on a
seperate cable. Therefore, if you have a partition that is not on the XP
drive, and is not on the same cable as XP, it will improve speed (slightly).
Otherwise, don't waste your time.
I have a system similar to yours except I have 8800s and 1.3TB of disk
space.
Courtney sends...
<PaceMkrRep@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I recenlty got a new computer with a 300GB RAID 0 (2x 150GB Raptors)
as one drive and a 500GB storage drive as a second drive. I am running
Windows XP Media Center 2005 with a Core 2 Extreme processor and two
GeForce 7950 GX2 video cards set up in a quad SLI config. I also have
4GB of DDR2 800MHz SDRAM.
I'm hoping that I can get help with two questions:
1) I noticed that when I boot the system the memory cycle cout does
count all 4GB of memory, but when I am in Windows and I right click on
My Computer\Properties, it states that I have 2.25GB of memory. Is
this a limitation of the operating system?
Is there a way around this to get the whole 4GB recognized?
2) With that much hard disk space, I am wondering if there is any
performance advantage or disadvantage to setting up multiple
partitions on each of the 2 drives. I was thinking of partitioning the
RAID into a 70GB Partition for just the OS and the remainder for
programs. I was also thinking of partitioning the second 500GB drive
into 3 partitions. Two partitions of approximately 215GB each and a
third of about 20GB for the swap file. Would any of this be of any
benefit?
Finally, if I removed the swap file that Windows Automatically setup
on the C: drive with the OS and put it on the other drive in its own
dedicated partition, would that be a performance booster or not?
Thanks for your advice and help!
Thanks in advance!!!
Regards,
Steve B.
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