page file on each drive? Speed improvment?

[kenny]

What are the benefits of having a page file on each hard disk?

Does it improve performance?

THANKS

 

[DL]

No

 

[Rock]

What are the benefits of having a page file on each hard disk?

Does it improve performance?

THANKS

See this link for a discussion of virtual memory and setting the page
file: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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[kenny]

I know all the info on that page...

I just want a yes or no answer to my question

 

[kenny]

I know all the info on that page...

I just want a yes or no answer to my question

 

[R. McCarty]

None, If your PC has 256+ of Physical RAM the actual traffic on
the Pagefile will be minimal. Redirecting the Pagefile to a second
equal performance "Physical" disk may provide a small amount of
performance. The requirement that a Pagefile should exist on the
XP partition is for performing a Memory Dump (Memory.Dmp)
which must be equal in size to the Physical RAM on the PC.

 

[Guest]

Try reading
at:http://www.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555223&SD=tech

 

[kenny]

thanks

None, If your PC has 256+ of Physical RAM the actual traffic on
the Pagefile will be minimal. Redirecting the Pagefile to a second
equal performance "Physical" disk may provide a small amount of
performance. The requirement that a Pagefile should exist on the
XP partition is for performing a Memory Dump (Memory.Dmp)
which must be equal in size to the Physical RAM on the PC.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

And redirecting to a faster hard drive?


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[Gerry Cornell]

Kenny

Doesn't this extract give you an unequivocal answer?

In earlier NT systems it was usual to have such a file on each
hard drive partition, if there were more than one partition, with
the idea of having the file as near as possible to the ‘action’
on the disk. In XP the optimisation implied by this has been
found not to justify the overhead, and normally there is only
a single page file in the first instance.

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I know all the info on that page...

I just want a yes or no answer to my question

 

[R. McCarty]

Would certainly seem to be the logical conclusion. Suppose I should
have added a + behind the drive description.

Nothing gets past this group - Best NG Posting Editors anywhere.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

What are the benefits of having a page file on each hard disk?

None.


Does it improve performance?

No.

Read here: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Rock]

I know all the info on that page...

I just want a yes or no answer to my question

It answers your question.

 

[kenny]

Thank you for your clear and simple response...

No.

Read here: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Sean Cousins]

The requirement that a Pagefile should exist on the
XP partition is for performing a Memory Dump (Memory.Dmp)
which must be equal in size to the Physical RAM on the PC.

By default it is set to just perform a kernel dump which if you want a
kernel dump only requires a minimum 2mb pagefile.

 

[Sean Cousins]

By default it is set to just perform a kernel dump which if you want a
kernel dump only requires a minimum 2mb pagefile.

Sorry, this is not quite right. By default XP is set to do just a
debug dump which requires a minimum of 2mb. If you want a kernel dump
then it should be set to 200mb and a memory dump at least the size of
ram installed.

NOTE: If you are debugging crashes and wish the error reporting to
make a kernel or full dump, then you will need an initial size set on
C: of either 200 MB (for a kernel dump) or the size of RAM (for a full
memory dump). If you are not doing so, it is best to make the setting
to no more than a ‘Small Dump’, at Control Panel | System | Advanced,
click Settings in the ‘Startup and Recovery’ section, and select in
the ‘Write Debug information to’ panel

 

[Jonny]

Would help to know to answer the question yes or no:
How many hard disks there are.
What the make/model of each hard disk is.
If DMA is implemented on local ide.
What bus method is used for each a hard disk.
If RAID is implemented, and if software or hardware RAID, and what form of
RAID is used.
Where the partition is located on each hard drive the swapfile is intended.
If the partition for each hard drive has other files on it that may change
that also contain a swapfile.

Generally speaking, no.

 

[Paul Knudsen]

What are the benefits of having a page file on each hard disk?

Does it improve performance?

THANKS

Yes, but not a whole lot. But it's easy to do, so why not? On your
second drive, create a FAT or FAT32 partition just for the pagefile
itself.