Page File Size

[Lawrence Tse]

Should be around 1.5 times for RAM size, supply that your system is at usual
configuration. It also depends on what you've installed in the OS and other
hardware configuration a little bit.

 

[Guest]

I want to know the story of page file, I have 2 partitions on a physical
drive (C & D), OS is installed on Drive C. What is the best recommandation
for page file.

OS: Windows 2000 Professional

 

[Matt Anderson]

I want to know the story of page file, I have 2 partitions on a physical
drive (C & D), OS is installed on Drive C. What is the best recommandation
for page file.

OS: Windows 2000 Professional

Page on d drive, have it be 10% of the free space on drive d. Have min and
max size be the same.

Matt
MCT, MCSE

 

[John John]

Page on d drive, have it be 10% of the free space on drive d. Have min and
max size be the same.

Hmmmm... let's see here... (Hypothectically) free space on drive D is
70 Gigs... are you suggesting that my page file should be 7 gigs?

John

 

[John John]

Your page file should be 1.5 to 3 times that of installed RAM. To avoid
fragmentation you can or should set the minimum and maximum size to the
same value. It may not be advisable to move the page file to a
different partition on the same physical disk unless you don't have
enough space on the primary partition. It wouldn't hurt to do so but
you may not notice any improvements and may in fact increase seek time.
If you wish to have the page file on a different partition it should
be on a different physical disk and ideally on a controller of its own.

Read here for more information on page file:
Configuring page files for optimization and recovery
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197379

John

 

[Matt Anderson]

Hmmmm... let's see here... (Hypothectically) free space on drive D is 70
Gigs... are you suggesting that my page file should be 7 gigs?

John

Within reason... in that case the 1.5 times the RAM size may make more
sense.

Matt

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Asif - Take a look here for a lot of very useful info on this:
http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm Recommended

You can also make very good use of Bill James' Page File Monitor (as
modified by Doug Knox), here:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm to monitor your normal
and peak usage and then reset your pagefile accordingly.

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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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