Do you guys pagefile ?
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17180569 = all you need to know.
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sure do use a page file, if you have 2gb or more of ram you want to set a static file to the tune of 4092mb
i find the best solution is to put a partition on your hdd, or even better a seperate hdd for the size of your page +1gb just to stop windows moaning.
i have a seperate partition for 5gb i set it up with the drive letter p: and label it as page drive.
keeps it all nice n tidy, and enables you to defrag your hdd without a huge block of un-movable files being in the middle of it
i find the best solution is to put a partition on your hdd, or even better a seperate hdd for the size of your page +1gb just to stop windows moaning.
i have a seperate partition for 5gb i set it up with the drive letter p: and label it as page drive.
keeps it all nice n tidy, and enables you to defrag your hdd without a huge block of un-movable files being in the middle of it
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I've tried disabling the pagefile on systems that weren't doing much but have RAM a-plenty. Windows bugs me with popup bubbles in the system tray every 30 seconds until I enable it again. It's rather obnoxious.
on a new installation at the weekend of XP MCE 2005 SP2 I found windows wouldnt move the page file to another drive (it wanted to have a page file per disk) never seen this before and was getting the same bubble saying system is running low on hdd on C: so in the ned reinstalled windows with 20GB C drive and left page file as default
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for a pagefile, what files sytem would be best and what cluster size? if on a seperate partition.
hotdog said:Simple one this! Who bothers to use a pagefile in windows? If you do do you let it decide or do you enter the amount of space it can have?
What are the performance benefits that can be had???
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I have always just let Windows do its thing with the pagefile size. I think it has actually automatically set itself to whatever the recommended ammount is (i think 2 and a half the ammount of physical RAM you have).
Craig.
leave is as default
unless you have more than one hard drive (NOT partition), then its a good idea to setup a pagefile on all drives (as long as they're not slow drives)
no matter what people say, xp needs one, and its really hard (if not impossible) to totally disable it in xp
i read many articles before coming to this conclution
unless you have more than one hard drive (NOT partition), then its a good idea to setup a pagefile on all drives (as long as they're not slow drives)
no matter what people say, xp needs one, and its really hard (if not impossible) to totally disable it in xp
i read many articles before coming to this conclution
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Shouldn't a low-speed location for the page file hurt overall system performance?DreXeL said: