Pagefile Advice on my setup

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Hi,

I have a Athlon XP2200 & 1GB Ram. I have one physical Hard Drive UDMA133 200GB.

I have split the one drive into 3 partitions:-

C:\Sys - OS Only(20GB)
D:\Apps - Applications & Games(90GB)
E:\Data - documents & downloads(90GB)

I am looking at the optmimum settings for my pagefile with these settings please???

Regards

John
 
Jvenables said:
Hi,

I have a Athlon XP2200 & 1GB Ram. I have one physical Hard Drive
UDMA133 200GB.

I have split the one drive into 3 partitions:-

C:\Sys - OS Only(20GB)
D:\Apps - Applications & Games(90GB)
E:\Data - documents & downloads(90GB)

I am looking at the optmimum settings for my pagefile with these
settings please???

Regards

John
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Lots of these types of questions can be answered by visiting Microsoft's
support site at http://support.microsoft.com/. A search on "pagefile"
for Windows XP found:

How to configure paging files for optimization and recovery in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314482
 
Hi,

I have a Athlon XP2200 & 1GB Ram. I have one physical Hard Drive
UDMA133 200GB.

I have split the one drive into 3 partitions:-

C:\Sys - OS Only(20GB)
D:\Apps - Applications & Games(90GB)
E:\Data - documents & downloads(90GB)

I am looking at the optmimum settings for my pagefile with these s
ettings please???

Regards

John
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Let the pagefile default to the C drive, you've got plenty of space
and with 1GB ram you're not going to read or write to it
much. Pagefile size isn't a performance hit, the rate you read and
write to it is. That's a function of how your applications are
written, and it's a little harder to measure than the size.

IMHO there is rarely any justificiation for partitioning of a
user PC.
 
Al Dykes said:
Let the pagefile default to the C drive, you've got plenty of space
and with 1GB ram you're not going to read or write to it
much. Pagefile size isn't a performance hit, the rate you read and
write to it is. That's a function of how your applications are
written, and it's a little harder to measure than the size.

IMHO there is rarely any justificiation for partitioning of a
user PC.
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I'll give you one very good reason to partition a drive (if you only
have one drive): Protecting your data WHEN (not if) you have to perform
a reinstall, especially if a clean install, of Windows. By having all
your applications point to paths in the other partition (or, better yet,
on another drive) then you don't have to worry about losing it. Sure
you should make backups, but restores take a long time compared to
already having it there waiting. I even move My Documents over to
another partition (of course also ensuring the permissions were set as
before). There's not much point in putting your applications in a
partition than the OS since Microsoft has drilled into programmers that
they should pollute the OS directories, anyway. Having the data on a
different drive is even better. If the OS drive goes bad, you still
have your data and don't have to waste time doing a restore (along with
the OS reinstall on the new drive). If the data drive goes bad, well,
you do backups, right? So you do the data restore without touching the
OS drive, and the backup might be a disk image (rather than logical file
backups) and restoring from those are difficult if not impossible
without also touching the other files (i.e., the OS) on a restore -
unless the disk image is for a partition just for the data and has
nothing of the OS and applications.
 
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