If your pagefile is on the D: drive

[dark_matter]

I agree that it is good practice to move your pagefile to a seperate drive (if you have one) and (even better) a seperate controller. I have been doing this for a long time. However I discovered that if I move my pagefile to a different drive and fail to leave a small amount behind on C: then Windows tends to ignore the settings and either use no pagefile at all or create a very large one on C:

Since my discovery I have created a small pagefile on C:, 2Mb minimum and 50Mb maximum. I have moved my pagefile over to my D: drive (seperate drive, controller). Rather than fix the pagefile I have left it dynamic - its on its own 5gb partition at the start of the drive.

I was suprised that windows was doing this. Since leaving small amount on C: my machine is running a lot smoother. Im not saying its going to be the same for you guys. Its worth looking into if you have moved your swap file to a different drive and found no improvement or even that your machine seems slower.

Some useful utilities to check your pagefile, so you can check what works for you.

http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/
VB scripts that show your pagefile usage.

Let me know how it goes.

 

[Echo toxin]

What I have always done is leave a pagefile on C: but fixed its size (twice my memory) and created another pagefile on another disk, again fixing the size to twice my memory.

Windows is supposed to have algorithms to detect which hard drive has less overall disk activity and hence use the pagefile on that disk.

 

[bledd]

if you have multiple drives

set it as system managed for each drive, xp will sort it out itself

 

[TheVoice]

if you have multiple drives

set it as system managed for each drive, xp will sort it out itself

I think most will disagree - it generally seems better to have a static (fixed size) pagefile than a dynamic one which can change size. Reduces chances of fragmentation, for one.

 

[moogle]

if you have multiple drives

set it as system managed for each drive, xp will sort it out itself

nah just use one drive with the pagefile. the faster one would be better.

 

[VaderDSL]

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[moogle]

moogle, just a friendly heads up on the rules for OcUK's signatures.

yes i seen that. im not on my own pc so i can't edit it in photoshop .
will it get me banned or something?

 

[Datamonkey]

ya sig will get removed, if it isnt edited within a certain time frame yeah could lead to a couple days suspension an so on.

just goto your user options and turn it off for now then mate

 

[moogle]

already been changed :/
ill have to fix it some other time
i guess i can use my "compact" xfire one