2Hard Drives, 2PageFiles

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CHRIS P

Greetings. I'm curious as to what an optimal size would
be for page files on two hard drives in my case. I'm
running 640MB RAM over an older/slower 30GB drive in
slave, AND a newer/faster 80GB drive in master. What
I've done thus far is to allocate [640MB(init.size)-1000MB
(max.size)] for the newer/faster80GBmaster hard drive (my
C:\), and used the 'System Managed Size' for the
older/slower30GBslave hard drive (my D:\). I'm wondering
if I've made a good choice here, especially in terms of
the D:\ drive. Should I give D:\ specific parameters and
if so, should they be the same as the C:\ drive
configuration? I plan to use both drives for music and
photos and some relative software. Thanks for your
attention. Sincerely,
--chris.
 
Usually selecting,system manage on both works best.
Under min xp selects 2mb,in max its 3X ram,usually
setting max 3X ram X two(hds)and sets for both.Typically
or ideal,you want the page file on the faster hd,although
youre set up will work.
 
Let Windows manage your virtual memory (a.k.a. swap file or paging file).
Don't try and tweak or manually set anything. Accept all the defaults. This
is no longer 16-bit Windows 3.1x when people could and did change the paging
file options with some impunity. The current algorithms are dramatically
different now. Reset the computer to accept all the defaults and let Windows
manage them. Windows is optimized for its defaults, and will do a better job
than you ever could in managing its swap file. Normally Windows allocated
about 1.5 times the amount of RAM you have for a swap file, but this varies
according to your usage patterns.
 
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