Decreasing System Partition Pagefile

[A P]

Hi!

I have current Page File Size on my system partition:

Initial Size: 768
Maximum size: 1536

I want to decrease it and create Pagefile on different partition to increase
system partition disc space, but when I try to change 1536 to 1024 for
example, the syste prompt me this message:

If the pagefile on volume C: has an initial size of less than 1023MB,
then the system may not be able to create debugging information file if a
STOP error occurs/ Continue anyway?

Need advise on this. Btw, I have created a pagefile on drive E: with

Initial size: 768
Maximum size: 1600

Me

 

[Bill James]

To set a smaller initial pagefile, you must change the crash debug log type. From System Properties, Advanced tab, use the Startup and Recovery button to change the debug type to Small Memory Dump. You still need to keep a small pagefile on C: though. By the way, if E: is just a partition, not a separate drive, you are probably going to hurt your performance because the drive head must move further when the pagefile is being written to.

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[Jay Somerset]

To set a smaller initial pagefile, you must change the crash debug log type. From System Properties, Advanced tab, use the Startup and Recovery button to change the debug type to Small Memory Dump. You still need to keep a small pagefile on C: though. By the way, if E: is just a partition, not a separate drive, you are probably going to hurt your performance because the drive head must move further when the pagefile is being written to.

One does not need to keep (even) a small partition on C:. The pagefile can
be placed in any partition. Yes, there is a minor performance advantage in
putting it on a different physical drive than the OS and/or your heavily
used data, but you'll probably never be able top measure it.

Make the pagefile a fixed size -- 1-1/2 times the amount of RAM is a good
choice for most. I don't recall seeing the RAM size in the original posting.
Forget the warning message -- it is unlikely to cause a problem, and the
core dump isn't all that useful anyway.