Page File Size

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What is the recommended page file size if i have 512MB on my laptop. I have
moved my page file to anothere partiton on my harddrive and there is no page
file now on C: Drive. Can it effect system performance?

thankx!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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[Jim]

What is the recommended page file size if i have 512MB on my laptop. I
have moved my page file to anothere partiton on my harddrive and there is
no page file now on C: Drive. Can it effect system performance?

thankx!

Let the system manage the size. How much you need depends on what kind of
programs you use.

Windows may create a pagefile on the C drive during bootup. Having a
pagefile in another partition is more cosmetics than anything else.

Jim

 

[ernie]

Unless you have another HDD in your machine, there is no benefit in moving
the page file to another partition.

HTH,
ern.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Unless you have another HDD in your machine, there is no benefit in
moving the page file to another partition.

It's even worse than "no benefit." There's a performance *penalty* for doing
so. It moves the page file farther from the other frequently-used data on
the drive, and increases head mevement to and from it. That *hurts*
performance.

 

[ernie]

Yes, I could have been more positively negative :^>.

On the defragmenter bar chart I see an unmoving file, which seems to be
placed in the centre of the partition, which I took to be the page file. In
my case that is quite far from the activity area as I have a 30GB drive with
only 4GB used. Perhaps you can confirm that the bar chart is a good
representation of the position of files and the unmover is the page file?

Regards,
ern.