Jonny said:
There's no point in it. The pagefile would fragment across the beginning of
the partition as its used. So would other system files at the beginning of
the partition subsequent to it. An exception is if the pagefile is a
constant size which I don't subscribe to.
Actually if the page file were specified with a substantial minimum
size it would remain unfragmented.
Norton speed disk in the past had the option you're seeking. Not sure about
now.
A viable option is another physical hard drive with a partition at the
beginning of that hard drive for that pagefile only, nothing else including
system restore option. A different bus system than the boot hard drive is
using would benefit like scsi. Alternate bus system should be as fast or
faster than that used by the boot hard drive to show any equal or better
performance. In this case, the pagefile may be left at default settings and
never fragment externally. Does not prevent internal fragmentation of the
pagefile though.
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All of these shenanigans with the page file will result in a
performance improvement that is approximately
..000000000000000000000001% of what would be achieved by adding
additional RAM so as to obviate the need to relocate active memory
content from RAM to the pagefile.
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