Last pagefile question

[Guest]

I posted several questions about optinal pagefile and hd partitioning; and,
thanks to several guys, figured out these problems; and posted as part of
“short manual†for easy Linux/Knoppix and winxp co-existence:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17024

Nevertheless; I’m not still sure about two questions.

1. I can manage to place pagefile as a single fragment between winxp and
other files, but in a long bothering way (see in the above web link). Winxp
has a tendency to scatter pagefile for many fragments. In general, file
fragmentation is bad; but I see a sense for pagefile fragmentation. May be
(I’m not sure) winxp fragments pagefile intentionally to have an opportunity
to use the closest fragment to present magnetic heads location???

Does anybody know for sure is pagefile fragmentation good or bad?

2. In three days after installation (or after running: Rundll32.exe
advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks ) winxp places a bunch of files on the second
part of a partition, incl., to line up files for smart booting. My question:
are files to this bunch moved from a partition beginning, or they are
dublicated to second banch?

I’ll, appreciate any information that help to improve system performance.
Best, Alex

 

[Alex Nichol]

I can manage to place pagefile as a single fragment between winxp and
other files, but in a long bothering way (see in the above web link). Winxp
has a tendency to scatter pagefile for many fragments. In general, file
fragmentation is bad; but I see a sense for pagefile fragmentation. May be
(I’m not sure) winxp fragments pagefile intentionally to have an opportunity
to use the closest fragment to present magnetic heads location???

It doessn't. But it rarely matters. The system keeps its own records
of where page file clusters are and goes direct to them. And on any
reasonably modern size RAM the amount of traffic is low, if any, so you
lose nothing to matter

 

[Guest]

Have a look for a small prog called "pagedfrg.zip" .This gives you the option
to defrag all system files once only, next boot or every boot. Displays
Fragmentation of all system files.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for advice.
But pagedfrg.exe moves pagefile far far far from all other files to the
partition end, that increases magnetic haeds tossing, and, I believe,
decreases system performanced. I try to place pagefile closer to system
files. What’s better: fragmented pagefile or magnetic heads tossing? What do
you think about this?
Best Alex