pagefile.sys on a striped volume?

[Jeff Reid]

This used to work, even with the initial release of SP2
I think, but now it's not working. The system ends up
creating a pagefile.sys on the C:\ partition instead.

I think this started to happen when I upgraged from 1GB
to 2GB of ram, but can't be sure, it may be just coincidence
that I noticed this. It was recently as the C:\ partition
is a small FAT16 partition that only contains the boot
files (boot.ini, ntldr, ...) and the pagefile.sys cause
the disk full warning popup to appear.

I have to create a pagefile.sys on a non-striped partition
to get it to work.

Any ideas on this?

Also, after doing this, I can set all drive to no page file
at all. After rebooting. it shows 0 MB for page file, and
I don't see any instances of pagefile.sys on any of the
partitions, yet task manager shows that a page file does
exists? Where is this page file going to, and does it
have a different name?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

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

 

[Jeff Reid]

Thanks but those are pretty generic links. Looks like there's
some bug in XP SP2 not allowing a pagefile to work on a striped
volume anymore (it used to work). I'm not sure if it's SP2,
a recent update, or upgrading my ram from 1GB to 2GB that
triggered this bug.

Again, the pagefile works just fine on a non-striped partition,
but not on a striped partition. The system will let me set
one up on a striped partition, but after it reboots, it ends
up putting one onto the first available non-striped partition
it finds, usually C: partition unless I fill up C:, then it
puts one on D:.

"Mark L. Ferguson"