If your computer USES the pagefile much, sure.I recently put a second drive on my computer.
My primary drive is 18.6 GB and the 2nd drive is 160 Gb.
Would it be beneficial to move my fixed pagefile to the new drive?
(I am assuming that the 2nd drive is probably a little faster.)
I recently put a second drive on my computer.
My primary drive is 18.6 GB and the 2nd drive is 160 Gb.
Would it be beneficial to move my fixed pagefile to the new drive?
(I am assuming that the 2nd drive is probably a little faster.)
Thanks.
See db's comments about the drive usage: he has a good point. Also:
A drive won't be "faster" because it's new. It might seem that way at
first but as it begins to acquire files, become fragmented, etc. etc.,
it will be exactly the same as your old drive unless you KNOW it is
faster.
Drives that are affordable come in two spindle speeds: 5400 or 7200
rpm. If you have one of each, then one will be faster th an the
other. If they are the same, then there will be no difference in
speed. Only the OS and drive management/maintenance will make any
difference; ,meaning you, the user.
Unless you have a specific, known reason for it, it's better to not
use fixed size page file too. Let the system manage the size. It's
not very often that there is a need for fixed sizes of the pf and your
apparent level of expertise here makes me suspect that's not the case
you're in. With a fixed size, you're either going to encounter out of
space problems with a fixed pf size, or you'll be wasting a lot of
space 100% of the time for no good reason.
It often turns out people use a fixed size pg because they've heard
it minimizes the fragmentation of the pf. As long as the drive has
sufficient room on it and was defragged before setting up the page
file, it will not become excessively fragmented. And if you're low
on disk space, because of a fixed pf size, you'll likely start to
have other annoyances bugging you too. XP tries to be sure there will
be minimum fragmentation to the pf. And if it gets too large and
does fragment, that fragmentation goes away when it drops down to
normal size again. For best performance, a drive should be less than
80% occupied. That counts the space for pf, restore points, etc.
etc..
HTH,
Twayne`
BillW50 said:Oh nonsense! The correct size of your pagefile solely depends on how
much free RAM you have (if you always have 200MB or more free, you
don't need a pagefile).
And on a XP machine with 1GB or more, few
will need a pagefile at all. And there are many reasons why not to
run a pagefile or a fixed one as well. One very good reason is if you
use a SSD instead of a HDD. As excessive and unnecessary writing to a
SSD drive just isn't very smart. As the longevity goes downhill from
such a practice.
Uh, no. The size of the pagefile depends on how many programs (and
their sizes) you have open at one time. 100 separate sessions of
Internet Explorer will burn up a significant amount of pagefile
diskspace, even with 4GB of RAM.
Depends on the drive. A RAM-drive is a Solid State Drive. You can
write to it several times before it breaks.
respectfully, most third party
programs are encoded to
utilize paging, regardless
of how much memory
one has.
in otherwords, there are
many third party programs
that will not function solely
in core memory.
I recently put a second drive on my computer.
My primary drive is 18.6 GB and the 2nd drive is 160 Gb.
Would it be beneficial to move my fixed pagefile to the new drive?
(I am assuming that the 2nd drive is probably a little faster.)
db said:respectfully, most third party
programs are encoded to
utilize paging, regardless
of how much memory
one has.
in otherwords, there are
many third party programs
that will not function solely
in core memory.
db said:photo shop.
See db's comments about the drive usage: he has a good point. Also:
A drive won't be "faster" because it's new. It might seem that way at
first but as it begins to acquire files, become fragmented, etc. etc.,
it will be exactly the same as your old drive unless you KNOW it is
faster.
Drives that are affordable come in two spindle speeds: 5400 or 7200
rpm. If you have one of each, then one will be faster th an the other.
If they are the same, then there will be no difference in speed. Only
the OS and drive management/maintenance will make any difference;
,meaning you, the user.
Unless you have a specific, known reason for it, it's better to not use
fixed size page file too. Let the system manage the size. It's not
very often that there is a need for fixed sizes of the pf and your
apparent level of expertise here makes me suspect that's not the case
you're in. With a fixed size, you're either going to encounter out of
space problems with a fixed pf size, or you'll be wasting a lot of space
100% of the time for no good reason.
It often turns out people use a fixed size pg because they've heard
it minimizes the fragmentation of the pf. As long as the drive has
sufficient room on it and was defragged before setting up the page file,
it will not become excessively fragmented. And if you're low on disk
space, because of a fixed pf size, you'll likely start to have other
annoyances bugging you too. XP tries to be sure there will be minimum
fragmentation to the pf. And if it gets too large and does fragment,
that fragmentation goes away when it drops down to normal size again.
For best performance, a drive should be less than 80% occupied. That
counts the space for pf, restore points, etc. etc..
HTH,
Twayne`
Having the pagefile on a different drive than Windows and you
applications will usually be faster because the drive heads, on
average, have to do less seeking.
The performance of a particular drive is usually affected to a greater
degree by seek speed and rotation rate rather than capacity.
db said:windows paging and virtual mem
if I recall are distinctly different.
also, photo shop requires a
scratch disk, which is its
own distinct requirement.
db said:perhaps, you should argue your
professional opinion with the
software engineers:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315270
BillW50 said:In Twayne typed on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:09:37 -0400:
Oh nonsense! The correct size of your pagefile solely depends on how
much free RAM you have (if you always have 200MB or more free, you
don't need a pagefile).
will need a pagefile at all.
run a pagefile or a fixed one as well. One very good reason is if you
use a SSD instead of a HDD. As excessive and unnecessary writing to a
SSD drive just isn't very smart. As the longevity goes downhill from
such a practice.
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