Pagefile Virtual problem

[Guest]

Greetings,

I really need some help with this nagging problem that has been around for a
while. I posted a while back and only got a link to a site with very basic
virtual memory with no information regarding this problem.

My Win XP Pro/SP2 system keeps creating a 1.5GB pagefile.sys on the C:
drive, when in System Properties/Advanced/Perf only has a 2GB file on the E:
drive.

Programs like dxdiag and MSInfo also report the virtual space available
wrong- too big, by over a gig... yet the pagefile settings are clearly C:
(nothing) D: (nothing) e: (2048/2048). I'm getting a 2048MB pagefile.sys on
the E: drive, but also getting a 1.2GB pagefile.sys on the C: drive.

I can freely delete the pagefile.sys on the C: drive- it's not in use or
locked or anything.. something somewhere still has this and I think it's deep
in the registry or system settings and wondering where I can hunt down this
reference and delete it.

Any clues where to find and destroy this wrong reference?

 

[Tom]

Greetings,

I really need some help with this nagging problem that has been around for a
while. I posted a while back and only got a link to a site with very basic
virtual memory with no information regarding this problem.

My Win XP Pro/SP2 system keeps creating a 1.5GB pagefile.sys on the C:
drive, when in System Properties/Advanced/Perf only has a 2GB file on the E:
drive.

Programs like dxdiag and MSInfo also report the virtual space available
wrong- too big, by over a gig... yet the pagefile settings are clearly C:
(nothing) D: (nothing) e: (2048/2048). I'm getting a 2048MB pagefile.sys on
the E: drive, but also getting a 1.2GB pagefile.sys on the C: drive.

I can freely delete the pagefile.sys on the C: drive- it's not in use or
locked or anything.. something somewhere still has this and I think it's deep
in the registry or system settings and wondering where I can hunt down this
reference and delete it.

Any clues where to find and destroy this wrong reference?

Firstly, let's start here:

If your you are trying to place the page file on a separate partition that resides on the SAME physical hard drive, then that is a bad thing. It best to leave it on the system partition, namely C:. Set it to 150min and 900max (assuming you have 512megs of memory), and remove the reference from E: The reason for not doing this on the same drive is; that the disk reading heads will seek further down the drive to read/write the page file, actually taking more time, and reducing performance a bit.

If you have two physical drives, and you are placing the primary page file on the non system drive's partition (which is fine), set it the way you want, but preferrably, the setting I mentioned above. If windows complains about it being too small, you can always increase it. The problem you're having, is not leaving a small page file on the system drive, which Windows will try to find. Set one on C: @ 2megs min, and 50max, then main with the one I stated.

Read here for more info:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Guest]

assuming you have more than one hard drive installed
under the system properties/advanced/performance/advanced tab there is the
options for where to have your page file ... by default it is the c:\drive
and the size will be listed below ... while the c:\drive is highlighted in
the small window select custom below it and then remove the size entries and
then select the 'SET' button ... then choose the drive you wish to use (for
example D:\drive) and again choose the custom option and input the size of
the file you wish to use and again select 'SET' .. you will have to reboot
your machine after that for the settings to be implemented
hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your replies guys, but none of this addresses the actual problem.

To be more clear: Yes, the system has three (3) physical hard drives, with
one partition each (It's an UW160 SCSI system): Drive C:, Drive D: and Drive
E:

In System Properties, Advanced, Performance it is set to this:
Drive C: (no page file set)
Drive D: (no page file set)
Drive E: 2048 Min, 2048 Max

It's a 1.5GB Memory, Win XP Pro system.. with 2GB of virtual specified
(which is right around what Windows suggests anyways.. just a hair bigger).

The problem is- whenever I boot, a 1.2GB pagefile.sys is being created on
the C: drive, as well as the 2GB file on the E: drive. I can freely delete
the one on the C: Drive - because it's not specified *ANYWHERE* in System
Properties/advanced or anywhere else. It just mistakenly creates this dumb
1.2GB file that it will never use or do anything with.

The 2GB file on the E: drive is locked.. in use.. can't delete. It's active
and working.

SOMEWHERE, there is an obsolete reference to this C: drive pagefile causing
the system to create it and also count it as available virtual memory.
DxDiag and MSInfo seem to think I have 3.2GB of Virtual Memory, yet System
Props/Advanced/Performance shows as only 2GB of virtual memory defined (all
on Drive E.

Any hints or suggestion?

 

[Tom]

-----Original Message-----
Thanks for your replies guys, but none of this addresses the actual problem.

To be more clear: Yes, the system has three (3) physical hard drives, with
one partition each (It's an UW160 SCSI system): Drive C:, Drive D: and Drive
E:

In System Properties, Advanced, Performance it is set to this:
Drive C: (no page file set)
Drive D: (no page file set)
Drive E: 2048 Min, 2048 Max

It's a 1.5GB Memory, Win XP Pro system.. with 2GB of virtual specified
(which is right around what Windows suggests anyways.. just a hair bigger).

The problem is- whenever I boot, a 1.2GB pagefile.sys is being created on
the C: drive, as well as the 2GB file on the E: drive. I can freely delete
the one on the C: Drive - because it's not specified *ANYWHERE* in System
Properties/advanced or anywhere else. It just mistakenly creates this dumb
1.2GB file that it will never use or do anything with.

The 2GB file on the E: drive is locked.. in use.. can't delete. It's active
and working.

SOMEWHERE, there is an obsolete reference to this C: drive pagefile causing
the system to create it and also count it as available virtual memory.
DxDiag and MSInfo seem to think I have 3.2GB of Virtual Memory, yet System
Props/Advanced/Performance shows as only 2GB of virtual memory defined (all
on Drive E.

Any hints or suggestion?
.

As I stated in my previous post. Windows wants to use C:
as the system where the pagefile will be, so it complains.
You need to have one there (on C, albeit, a small one as
I indicated for it to work properly. Read up at the link I
provided for more detaqils.