Gary said:
Currently have it on my C drive and I want to move it to bigger
partition on the same drive.
In general, that's not a good idea, and can hurt your performance. What that
does is move the page file to a location on the hard drive distant from the
other frequently-used data on the drive. The result is that every time
Windows needs to use the page file, the time to get to it and back from it
is increased.
Putting the swap file on a second *physical* drive is a good idea, since it
decreases head movement, but not to a second partition on a single drive. A
good rule of thumb is that the page file should be on the most-used
partition of the least-used physical drive. For almost everyone with a
single drive, that's C:.
However, in your case, with so much RAM, your page file will probably be
used so little that it doesn't matter much.
I have 1GB of memory and my swap file is 1.5GB.
With so much RAM, such a large page file (the Windows default of 1.5 times
RAM) is almost certainly *way* more than you need. I would lower the minimum
to around 200MB and keep the maximum large, just in case (a large max
doesn't hurt you at all).
Does it really make any difference?
From a performance standpoint, in your case, with so much RAM, iit probably
doesn't matter at all.
There's excellent information on the page file in the late MVP Alex Nichol's
article "Virtual Memory in Windows XP" at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm