Page File

Is there any advantage to moving the page file to a different drive than the
OS (Vista 64) or (Xp 64)?
Drawbacks?

Generally, spending time on the swap file is a waste of time. But it's
interesting to play around with it for a while - the only real advantage is
if you have a faster drive than the system drive - or, myth has it if you
frequently execute memory intensive app's from another drive. When you're
done experimenting, you will forget about it.

Personally, I find that forcing the page file to a fixed size (wherever it
sits) is the most efficient little helper to the system. You do this by
setting the min-size the same as the max-size. Page file re-sizing is
probably among the slowest operations the OS is ever performing.

Even if you do move it, you still need some swap space on the system drive.

The system recommended size should work fine.


Tony. . .


"Kue2" <> wrote in message
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> Is there any advantage to moving the page file to a different drive than
the
> OS (Vista 64) or (Xp 64)?
> Drawbacks?
>

"Kue2" <> wrote in message
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> Is there any advantage to moving the page file to a different drive than
> the OS (Vista 64) or (Xp 64)?
> Drawbacks?


I used to do this. You can get slight improvements in speed if you put the
pagefile on another drive, as the system drive is likely to be busy while
the pagefile is being accessed, especially the %TEMP% folder.

There is only any point in doing this with more than one physical drive.
Doing this with partitions on the same drive is totally pointless, and
probably would slow things down.

I don't bother anymore, as the system drive(s) are RAID-0, and by far the
fastest in the system.

You must remember to keep a small pagefile on the system drive, for crash
memory dumps. I do not know what the size you need for Vista, but IIRC, I
had 64KB on XP, for a small memory dump.

ss.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:11:08 -0400, Kue2 wrote:

>Is there any advantage to moving the page file to a different drive than the
>OS (Vista 64) or (Xp 64)?

Yes, if that different drive is used much less.

>Drawbacks?

None. But in most cases it doesn't help much either.

Have a look at http://winhlp.com/?q=node/42 for some additional
information.

Hans-Georg
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