ive got 1 hd a 74gb raptor and im getting a 80gb sata 2 drive in the next few days for storage and putting the pagefile on if its any benefit to my sysyem.
also got 2gigs of ram in my system,will i get a performance boost by moving the pagefile to my 2nd hd and if so how do i do it and what settings do i need for using 2gbs of ram.
thanks.
To Change the pagefile to your 2nd harddrive do the following:
Right-Click on My Computer
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
Click the 'Settings' button in the Performance section
Click the Advanced tab
Then under 'Virtual Memory' click change.
I'm unsure of what size pagefile you would want for 2gb of RAM, the general rule of thumb is 1.5x the amount of memory you have.. I use a 1.5gb pagefile, but I'm unsure whether a larger file would benefit you... But whatever size you choose make sure the minimum and maximum values are the same, this stops the pagefile dynamically changing and so improves performance
I'd have thought 768 or there abouts would be enough tbh, even though you've got 2 gig physical xp will still use the page file, make sure you actually turn off the page of the c drive and create it on the other drive rather than just add another page file
So let me get this right
I have 1024mb of ram
I should set the page file both the min and max to 1536 ????
yeah thats it 1.5 times your ram is the one all the cool kids use!Originally Posted by ibmike
do i have to make a partition on my new drive for the pagefile?
Yes you will need to create an ntfs partition once it's conected, either as one 80 gig partition or one or more smaller using the logical disk manager from control panel\admin tools\comp managment, it's up to you. There is a benifit from having your page file on a seperate physical drive from your boot/programs drive in that items from memory can be paged out whilst programs are read from the other seperate drive for example, as for the 1.5x rule, whilst that used to be true when you used to have 256 meg of ram I wouldn't use it all the time nowa days, if you've got 1 gig and beings XP can only address 2gig in total another 1 gig will be more than enough
Last edited by Olly1234; 16-05-2005 at 12:38 AM.
You don't have to create a partition for a swap file, just set it on a different drive and you'll be fine. You can even "see" the swap file in Explorer if you unhide all files.
And I hear it's best to have between 1.5x - 2x your RAM size for the swap file. I do (1GB RAM, 1.5GB - 2GB Swap File on a seperate HDD).
Unfortuantly as said above the 1.5-2.5 rule is a bit of a myth these days, read through this guide and you'll understand as to why http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle....no=143&pgno=21
Last edited by Olly1234; 16-05-2005 at 10:50 AM.
/me shrugs...
No harm in doing so, I'd rather be sure I have enough virtual memory than not have enough!
Well the main reason not to have an excessively large file is that if you've moved your page file to the outer tracks of your HD the data gets accessed faster the further out from the centre it is, however it's also best to have programs further out so they get accessed faster, the bigger your page file the less room there is for them is all so it makes sense to make sure your page file isn't bigger than nessesary
Am not really that pernickety that I'd feel it necessary to move files to the outer part of drives to get them to run 0.000001 seconds faster....... Can't believe anyone is tbh.
I'm happy with how it runs, I'll stick with it, safe in the knowledge I won't run out of VM.
And am not really that fussed about space either, have 240GB available to me and use far less than 50% of it as it is!
Ok fair enough i'm not trying to start any kind of argument just stating the facts as I read them..In the test the results they got were a littel more than the 0.000001%:
"As you can see from the example above, the transfer rate at the outer tracks are about 59MB/s while the central and inner tracks have transfer rates of about 49MB/s and 30MB/s respectively. Moving the paging file from the inner tracks to the outer tracks will almost double its performance! Even moving the paging file from the central tracks to the outer tracks will give the paging file a transfer rate boost of 20%"
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