Ewf question

[Gianluca Facca]

In my image c partition is ram protected.
Have I to put paging file on another partition or can I let it be on c?

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Well, IT MUST BE ON UNPROTECTED PARTITION.

Just try to imagine what will happen if you leave it on protected partition.
If you are using page file of few megabytes than it is probably ok to leave
it on protected partition. (But this is only for rare cases where you must
have pagefile support and you have plenty of RAM)

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Gianluca Facca]

Thank you.
And what about Disk-Based Overlay:
in this case I think I can let Paging file on protected partition,
is it right?

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Well it would probably work, but I don't think that anyone would like to see
it working

Let us talk about one strange device with following config:

1. 64 MB of RAM
2. HDD 10+ GB
3. Partition 1 C: (OS and page file)
4. Partition 2 EWF Disk Overlay

Situation:
1. You start XPe.
2. XPe consumes memory->VMM uses page file for memory, and swapping begins,
instead of writing to C: it goes to EWF Disk Overlay.

But you will probably suffer great performance penalties.


Solutions:
1. Add more memory, it is not too much expensive. It will increase your HDD
life time, and speed device significantly since XPe wont need to swap memory
to disk.
2. Create partition D: and change path of pagefile to it.


Regards,
Slobodan