Disk Management

[Rowan]

Obviously, it is good news. Specifically, the Page File is a crucial part of
your HDD that is to RAM like the coolant recovery system in your car is to
your radiator, sort of. When RAM maxes out, the "spillover" is written to
disk. If you have this set up correctly, the area of the disk set aside for
the Page File (or VM - Virtual Memory) grows and shrinks according to need.
This helps explain why computers with too little RAM and a big VM tend to
run slowly (retrieving data off a disk is a lot slower than using RAM), and
why they don't just stop suddenly when they reach 100% RAM utilization.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi!Dr.Hunk!

The Healthy status is the normal volume status on both basic and dynamic
volumes when the volume is accessible and has no known problems. No user
action is required.
regards.
ssg-MS-MVP/pronetworks.org

 

[RonK]

SSG - I have a question related to this post if you don't mind me jumping in
here. I have 1 gig of ddr 2700 in my XP Pro machine (amd 2500xp cpu). I have
noticed that it never gets below 720 meg of free memory but the page file
grows and shrinks. Is it wise to totally disable the page file in my case ?
Thankyou in advance.
Ron

 

[Comp Guy]

Check your date.

Future posting is very rude and inconsiderate.
What right do you have to cut in line?

 

[Stephen Johnson]

How is that possible? Where does the date come from. Does it just take the date off the users
computer. If so, that's dumb.

Stephen

 

[Plato]

How is that possible? Where does the date come from. Does it just take the date off

Whilst booting win takes the time/date from the bios and then manages it
itself.

 

[Mike Brearley]

No. There are some applications that require available space in the swap
file. If there was no swap file, these programs may either not work, or
work unpredictably. From my expirience with a system with 1gig of memory,
you can set the page file to 384Mb and the system will probably run
perfectly fine. This is better than allowing windows to control the page
file as it will set the initial size much larger than what is needed.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Mike Brearley]

hmm, you have please be polite in your sig, but yet you yourself are not
being polite. Did you happen to think that the OP didn't realize his date
was off? Also, not all people are aware that when you post, it uses your
computers date/time instead of the news server that you are posting to.

To be polite, simply ask the OP to check their date/time as it appears to be
about 12 hours ahead.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Mike Brearley]

Yep, it takes the date/time from the users computer. I agree, it's kinda
dumb. You'd think that it'd just take the date/time from the server that
you're posting to.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Dr. Dunk]

When I go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management |
Disk Management, is see 2 partitions C and D that are status Healthy (Page
file) and Healthy (System) respectively. What does this mean?

 

[Alex Nichol]

SSG - I have a question related to this post if you don't mind me jumping in
here. I have 1 gig of ddr 2700 in my XP Pro machine (amd 2500xp cpu). I have
noticed that it never gets below 720 meg of free memory but the page file
grows and shrinks. Is it wise to totally disable the page file in my case ?

No. For why, see my page on Virtual memory in XP at
www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm