Re: pagefile

Hi, Hugh.

Good to see you here. ;^} But you still didn't mention your operating system. Since you are using OE 6, you apparently are running WinXP.

All the read/write heads on a physical hard drive are locked together in a "gang" and all move in unison. So to move from wherever they are working to a page file on the same HDD, the whole gang has to move, then come back to the original workplace. When you have a second HD, you have a second set of heads. One set can be reading on Disk 0 while the second is writing on Disk 1. So, yes, putting your page file on the second HD makes a lot of sense. Unless, of course, you are running an app on the same HD where the page file is. It's very hard to organize around this problem completely, but overall, you should get some speed increase from the arrangement.

No matter where you put the bulk of the page file, though, at least a small part of it should remain on you system drive to hold the error log in case of a blue-screen failure. As it says in that article I gave you the link for earlier (Virtual Memory in Windows XP; http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm), go to Control Panel | System | Advanced and set your preferences. WinXP (and Vista) are much better at managing the page file than previous Windows versions, so I always set it to System Managed.

There are those who debate the merits of a dedicated partition, but I believe the consensus is that it seldom is necessary or helpful. And if it is a hidden partition with no drive letter, how will WinXP find it and use it?

RC
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"Hugh Sutherland" <hsutherland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#ykth9MAJHA.4588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I want to put my pagefile(swapfile) on a second hard drive. Should that
pagefile be on a NTFS or FAT32 partition? also would it make sense to make
a hidden partition (no drive letter) say max 4096MB atthe staert or the end
of the second harddrive?

Hugh

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