Location of Pagefile.sys

[Guest]

I defragged using Norton. It put teh pagefile.sys at the bottom of its
graphical illustration of the hard disk -- meaning it is located at the END
(far edge) of the physical disk.

I like the pagefile.sys to be located as close to the center of the physical
hard disk as possible. I tried the Norton options to place the pagefile.sys
elsewhere, but none worked.

Is there a way I can manually relocate the pagefile.sys? Is there another
utility that will do so?

What about making a partition and putting pagefile.sys there -- a logical
partition on the same hard disk?

Thank you.

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[Robert Moir]

I defragged using Norton. It put teh pagefile.sys at the bottom of
its graphical illustration of the hard disk -- meaning it is located
at the END (far edge) of the physical disk.

I like the pagefile.sys to be located as close to the center of the
physical hard disk as possible. I tried the Norton options to place
the pagefile.sys elsewhere, but none worked.

Is there a way I can manually relocate the pagefile.sys? Is there
another utility that will do so?

What about making a partition and putting pagefile.sys there -- a
logical partition on the same hard disk?

What are you actually trying to achieve here? On today's modern disk drives,
the performance gains and losses you might once have seen from the physical
location of a file on a drive are no longer important... In fact given that
most disks now are multi platter and so on, the mapping you see in Nrotten
or any other utility will be referring to a logical concept, not a physical
location.

Regards
Rob

 

[Guest]

Well, I wondered about that. One computer is 5 years ago; one has two
internal hard drives that are 6-7 years old; another is 1 year old. I use
Photoshop and a couple of other applications that make intensive use of the
pagefile.sys.

I don't know what "muiltiplatter" means, but two of these drives are in
laptops, if it makes any difference.

Does it make any difference?
Do the ages of the hard drives make any difference?
Should I just relax and forget about where the pagefile.sys file resides?

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[Robert Moir]

Well, I wondered about that. One computer is 5 years ago; one has two
internal hard drives that are 6-7 years old; another is 1 year old. I use
Photoshop and a couple of other applications that make
intensive use of the pagefile.sys.

With photoshop, there might be a benefit in moving the page file to a
seperate *physical* disk. It also uses a temp area of its own which would
also benefit from being moved to a seperate physical disk.

I don't know what "muiltiplatter" means, but two of these drives are
in laptops, if it makes any difference.

Ah, ok. No it doesn't make a difference. Multi platter refers to the
internals of the disk drive. While we only see one "logical" disk drive,
which we can then choose to partition ourselves however we want, if you
actually open up a disk (don't do this to one you want to use again, in fact
don't do it at all, it's hard work and not THAT interesting!) you would see
that inside the disk drive is a number of physical disks which are combined
in the internal circuitry of the hard disk to present you with the "one
physical disk" you see when you install a new disk.

Does it make any difference?
Do the ages of the hard drives make any difference?

Well these are all new enough to be fast enough so that it makes little real
difference.

Should I just relax and forget about where the pagefile.sys file
resides?

Unless you can move it to a second physical hard disk, then yeah I'd advise
not worrying about it. Just keep the disk defragged and healthy in general -
photoshop *will* like that.

regards
rob

 

[Gerry Cornell]

It's less likely to cause fragmentation of free space if it is located
at the end of the volume.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Well, I wondered about that. One computer is 5 years ago; one has two
internal hard drives that are 6-7 years old; another is 1 year old. I use
Photoshop and a couple of other applications that make
intensive use of the pagefile.sys.

I don't know what "muiltiplatter" means, but two of these drives are
in laptops, if it makes any difference.

Does it make any difference?
Do the ages of the hard drives make any difference?
Should I just relax and forget about where the pagefile.sys file
resides?

Yes, you should forget about it, in my view. That's for three reasons:

1. What Robert says is correct.

2. Most people these days have enough RAM, so that page file use is minimal.

3. Photoshop doesn't use the Windows page file, but creates its own
pagefile-like space for doing something similar.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, guys. That was lots of help, and brought me into the 21st century.
;-)