Where put paging file?

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I have a C: and a D: drive. I'd like to put my pagefile on D: -- is
that ok? Can I completely eliminate the one on C:?
 
Rick C. said:
I have a C: and a D: drive. I'd like to put my pagefile on D: -- is
that ok? Can I completely eliminate the one on C:?
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Yes to both questions - just give it a try!
 
One other thing: If you don't have a pagefile on C:, or it is too small, you
won't get a dump file in case of a fatal error (blue screen).
 
William said:
The right thing to do is install enough memory that the swap file is not
used at all. The large cache that Windows implements makes the effect
minimal anyway.
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I didn't think it was possible not to use the pagefile at all. I mean I have
1GB of RAM in my workstation and it's still using 322MB of page file, or so
task manager states. I really do not have much open at this point either.
 
That 322MB (pagefile usage) actually means: this memory CAN be paged out if
you are running out of memory. Usually most of it will still be in RAM.

There is no easy way to calculate the size of a paging file.

In worst case the pagefile has to be at least the maximum size of all the
Virtual Memory in use (Commit Charge Peak). (Thanks to David Solomon.)

In NT4 and W2000 you can configure "no pagefile", but still 20MB will be
allocated. As of XP the pagefile really can be zero.
 
=?Utf-8?B?UGFzY2FsIERhbW1hbg==?= said:
That 322MB (pagefile usage) actually means: this memory CAN be paged out
if you are running out of memory. Usually most of it will still be in
RAM.

There is no easy way to calculate the size of a paging file.

In worst case the pagefile has to be at least the maximum size of all
the Virtual Memory in use (Commit Charge Peak). (Thanks to David
Solomon.)

In NT4 and W2000 you can configure "no pagefile", but still 20MB will be
allocated. As of XP the pagefile really can be zero.
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Interesting...thanks for the info.
 
Pascal said:
That 322MB (pagefile usage) actually means: this memory CAN be paged out if
you are running out of memory. Usually most of it will still be in RAM.

There is no easy way to calculate the size of a paging file.

In worst case the pagefile has to be at least the maximum size of all the
Virtual Memory in use (Commit Charge Peak). (Thanks to David Solomon.)

In NT4 and W2000 you can configure "no pagefile", but still 20MB will be
allocated. As of XP the pagefile really can be zero.
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I'm running a gig of ram and an 80 gig HD. With no programs running at
all, I have an over 900 meg pagefile, and it does get used. I should be
able to run with none, but there it is gobbling up space, slowing things
down, and showing what a silly OS looks like. Like everything else
microsopht, the OS makes assumptions which are invalid. (And yes, if
games, my primary purpose for computers, were mostly released early for
linux I would have dumped ms well over a decade ago.)
 
You can write thousands of posts of comparisons between Windows and Linux,
and you'll never get to a conclusion. Maybe there is something on you system
not well configured. If you have 1 GB of RAM, not using all of it, then you
have no need to configure a pagefile. With a pagefile you can "use" more than
your 1GB. But if you don't need it, it's OK to have no pagefile.
Like stated earlier, you are probably not using that 900MBs. You have to
interpret the numbers in Task Manager differently.

Actually, I use XP with 1GB, VMWare GSX and other software simultaneously
and no pagefile. No problems.
 
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