I Disabled my Page File, but Does XP know this? I'm not sure??

[ME]

Hi All. Since I have 1GB of Kingston HyperX PC3500 Ram, I
decided thats a bit more than enough if I wanted to do
away with the XP PageFile.sys. I did this mainly to speed
up the Map load times of my newly bought game BF1942 &
Desert Combat. So I went into the Advanced Options of MY
Computer and disabled the Page file that I had set to
2048MB on my second physical HD.

BUT, I'm not sure if it is in fact, disabled. When I look
at the XP Task Manager> Performance pane, it lists PF
Usage @ 249 MB, and also shows the Page File Usage
History as a flat yellow line of around the same amount.
So does this mean that XP is still using the PageFile.sys
file? I thought I already disabled it? Is the Task
Manager accurate?

If anyone could offer suggestions or comments, I'd really
appreciate it.

Thanks a million.

 

[DL]

Not a good idea to disable page file, can cause sys instability.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314482
David

 

[Courtney]

Did you reboot? Did you remove all pagefiles?

By the way, note that virtual memory is a *secondary* use for the pagefile.
It's primary use is to organize the RAM you have and to reduce the size of
page faults.

With a pagefile, Windows can move RAM around in 4K increments. Without it,
it does so in 64K increments.

Recommendation: Put the pagefile at 2-80 on the boot drive. Put a Windows
managed swapfile on the most used partition of the least used drive (if you
have more than one drive).

If you have one drive, set the minimum size at 2MB. Let Windows managed the
upper size.

By the way, I have 1.25GB RAM. My swapfile is currently at 1279.

Courtney

 

[MAP]

This is a really BAD idea

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi All. Since I have 1GB of Kingston HyperX PC3500 Ram, I
decided thats a bit more than enough if I wanted to do
away with the XP PageFile.sys. I did this mainly to speed
up the Map load times of my newly bought game BF1942 &
Desert Combat. So I went into the Advanced Options of MY
Computer and disabled the Page file that I had set to
2048MB on my second physical HD.

Do *not* disable the page file. If you have that much memory and set
the initial size at 100 and max at 1000 it will not in fact get used.
But the fact that it could be used allows the system to have it as a
place to 'park' allocations of memory space that programs ask for but do
not take up - if you do not have this possibility, they get assigned to
RAM and there is that much less RAM available. And this can add up to
hundreds of MB.