Setting up a page file, is this right ?

[Things change I've changed]

I have 2x160gig serial ata hardrives in my system, I'm thinking disable pagefile on my main drive C: (that has my windows and games installed on), create a 5gig partition on my secoundry drive and name and use that as my swapfile,

sound ok ?


edit - also what size page file do you reccomend for a system with 2gig of ram or should I set it to system managed ?, atm it is set as,

Initial size : 2046(MB)

Maximum size : 4092(MB)

cheers

 

[Red Skies]

OK first post, so don't shoot

Regards pagefile size, the rule of thumb always used to be:

Minimum = Memory * 1.5
Maximum = Memory * 3

In your case it would be 3072 (Min) and 6144 (Max)

 

[rpstewart]

The sizes above sound fine, Windows will only go above the minimum if it needs to.

As for location, moving it off onto a second spindle is always a good plan because it distributes the I/O around the disks which can make the system more responsive. I would only create a separate partition for the swap file if you can do so at the start of the disk (the fastest part).

 

[jbloggs]

lowrider007:

Although you are making the main pagefile on another HDD, I would also leave a very small pagefile (min 2MB, max 50MB) on your C:\ part/HDD, simply because if you don't when your get a BSOD (with XP anyway) it will not create a "minidump" file with a record of the errors that occured.

 

[skanky]

OK first post, so don't shoot

Regards pagefile size, the rule of thumb always used to be:

Minimum = Memory * 1.5
Maximum = Memory * 3

In your case it would be 3072 (Min) and 6144 (Max)

personally i dont subscribe to that theory, i'd probably go for 2048/2048.

 

[TheVoice]

personally i dont subscribe to that theory, i'd probably go for 2048/2048.

Agreed, because otherwise your pagefile would be smaller, if you have less RAM.

I use one that's 1536MB in size (both min and max) and it's not given me any problems. 2048 may be worthwhile if you work with lots of large files etc though.