separate partition

Hello I have read somewhere (but forgot where!) that some one has his
pagefil.sys and hiberfil.sys and even
tempfiles in separate partitions to speedup his system
I have plenty of HDspace and running winows 7 64bits, how can I modify win 7
to try this scheme?



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Honestly, it won't make much if any difference. You can move the page file
using the System applet in the Control Panel (sysdm.cpl), and clicking on
the Advanced Tab, Performance Options, Advanced Tab, Virtual Memory->Change
button. Temp files are controlled by the Environment Variables button on the
first of those Advanced tabs. I don't think you can easily change the
hibernate file.

But, as I said, I don't think you'll gain anything noticable.

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> Hello I have read somewhere (but forgot where!) that some one has his
> pagefil.sys and hiberfil.sys and even
> tempfiles in separate partitions to speedup his system
> I have plenty of HDspace and running winows 7 64bits, how can I modify win
> 7 to try this scheme?
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Peter,
Go to your Computer Properties (Win key + Pause) and click (left pane) on
"Advanced System Configuration" (I am translating from Spanish into English
so there may be some differences).
Go to the Advanced Options tab, and click on Configuration in the
Performance Section (that would be the upper one).
Now go to the Advanced Options Tab and click the button "Change" in Virtual
Memory.
There you go.
Carlos

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> Hello I have read somewhere (but forgot where!) that some one has his
> pagefil.sys and hiberfil.sys and even
> tempfiles in separate partitions to speedup his system
> I have plenty of HDspace and running winows 7 64bits, how can I modify win 7
> to try this scheme?
>
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Hi,
i bet a buck on it:

You cannot speed up hibernate mode at all !

;-))

jk
Happy christmas

Placing the pagefil.sys on any other partition on the same hard drive will
only slow the system down. It puts the page file out of the way of the
system files and it then takes longer to access the page file due to extra
drive head movement. If you place the page file on a second hard drive, on
the same IDE controller you will NOT see any speed increase. The two drives
must share the resources of the same controller.

Now, If you place the page file on a hard drive on a different IDE
controller, the two drive can read/write simultaneously - which will likely
show you a difference.

Note that if you have SATA drives each hard drive is on its own controller.
You can place the page file on any other drive (than the system drive) and
will likely see an improvement.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience/Security


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> Hello I have read somewhere (but forgot where!) that some one has his
> pagefil.sys and hiberfil.sys and even
> tempfiles in separate partitions to speedup his system
> I have plenty of HDspace and running winows 7 64bits, how can I modify win
> 7 to try this scheme?
>
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On 12/24/2009 3:16 PM, Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
> Honestly, it won't make much if any difference. You can move the page
> file using the System applet in the Control Panel (sysdm.cpl), and
> clicking on the Advanced Tab, Performance Options, Advanced Tab, Virtual
> Memory->Change button. Temp files are controlled by the Environment
> Variables button on the first of those Advanced tabs. I don't think you
> can easily change the hibernate file.
>
> But, as I said, I don't think you'll gain anything noticable.
>
I agree, the old days; one moved these files to a different drive to
increase performance. The IDE interface was able to simultaneously
access both drives at the same time reducing the overhead of having the
pagefile on the same partition as the OS.

With much faster drives these days; you'd probably not notice the small,
insignificant increase.

Oh, by the way another partition on the same drive doesn't count!

In article <>,
says...
>
> Placing the pagefil.sys on any other partition on the same hard drive will
> only slow the system down. It puts the page file out of the way of the
> system files and it then takes longer to access the page file due to extra
> drive head movement. If you place the page file on a second hard drive, on
> the same IDE controller you will NOT see any speed increase. The two drives
> must share the resources of the same controller.
>
Even if drives share the same computer resources,
they do not share their disk heads.

Disks are faster then before,
but speed of disks grows much slower than speed of computers,
being their bottleneck. There is much time spent
by disk head travelling.



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The best depends on how the best is defined.

With 2 drives on the same IDE controller when one drive is actively
reading/writing the other drive is in a wait state. The resources fluctuate
back and forth.

With a 2nd drive on a different controller both drives can read/write
simultaneously!

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience/Security


"Poutnik" <> wrote in message
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> In article <>,
> says...
>>
>> Placing the pagefil.sys on any other partition on the same hard drive
>> will
>> only slow the system down. It puts the page file out of the way of the
>> system files and it then takes longer to access the page file due to
>> extra
>> drive head movement. If you place the page file on a second hard drive,
>> on
>> the same IDE controller you will NOT see any speed increase. The two
>> drives
>> must share the resources of the same controller.
>>
> Even if drives share the same computer resources,
> they do not share their disk heads.
>
> Disks are faster then before,
> but speed of disks grows much slower than speed of computers,
> being their bottleneck. There is much time spent
> by disk head travelling.
>
>
>
> --
> Poutnik
> The best depends on how the best is defined.

OK so there is no gain in speed.
But what about fragmentation, there will be no more fragmentation......
That is the gain.

"Richard Urban" <> schreef in bericht
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> With 2 drives on the same IDE controller when one drive is actively
> reading/writing the other drive is in a wait state. The resources
> fluctuate back and forth.
>
> With a 2nd drive on a different controller both drives can read/write
> simultaneously!
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience/Security
>
>
> "Poutnik" <> wrote in message
> news:MPG.259fdefde76170089898b1@127.0.0.1...
>> In article <>,
>> says...
>>>
>>> Placing the pagefil.sys on any other partition on the same hard drive
>>> will
>>> only slow the system down. It puts the page file out of the way of the
>>> system files and it then takes longer to access the page file due to
>>> extra
>>> drive head movement. If you place the page file on a second hard drive,
>>> on
>>> the same IDE controller you will NOT see any speed increase. The two
>>> drives
>>> must share the resources of the same controller.
>>>
>> Even if drives share the same computer resources,
>> they do not share their disk heads.
>>
>> Disks are faster then before,
>> but speed of disks grows much slower than speed of computers,
>> being their bottleneck. There is much time spent
>> by disk head travelling.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Poutnik
>> The best depends on how the best is defined.
>
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> "Richard Urban" <> schreef in
bericht
> news:%...
> > With 2 drives on the same IDE controller when one drive is actively
> > reading/writing the other drive is in a wait state. The resources
> > fluctuate back and forth.
> >
> > With a 2nd drive on a different controller both drives can read/write
> > simultaneously!
> >
But, IMHO,
the IDE or SATA disk bus waits for the disk much more often,
then the opposite.

It can work with one disk,
while waiting for the other
to write data from disk cache,
or until data to be read are ready in disk cache.

--
Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.