Which is best place to put Page File?

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Rex Imperator

Hi,

I run WinXP SP1.

On my computer there are 4 drives, one DVD R/RW and one CD R/RW on a USB
connector.

IDE Channel 1: System as master, slave is backup.
IDE channel 2: Downloads as master, slave is DVD drive.
Serial Port 1 (SATA): HDD carrying games.

Please advise the most suitable drive on which to put the Page File.
There is ample space all round.

Many thanks

Rex.
 
Rex said:
Hi,

I run WinXP SP1.

On my computer there are 4 drives, one DVD R/RW and one CD R/RW on a USB
connector.

IDE Channel 1: System as master, slave is backup.
IDE channel 2: Downloads as master, slave is DVD drive.
Serial Port 1 (SATA): HDD carrying games.

Please advise the most suitable drive on which to put the Page File.
There is ample space all round.

Many thanks

Rex.
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Best is to just let Windows decide ... Before setting, defrag the disk
 
from the said:
Hi,

I run WinXP SP1.

On my computer there are 4 drives, one DVD R/RW and one CD R/RW on a USB
connector.

IDE Channel 1: System as master, slave is backup.
IDE channel 2: Downloads as master, slave is DVD drive.
Serial Port 1 (SATA): HDD carrying games.

Please advise the most suitable drive on which to put the Page File.
There is ample space all round.
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I'd put a minimum size one (10/50MB) on C: (it'll never be created, but
some things go ape if there isn't one), and the real one on IDE channel
2 'downloads', since there isn't much chance this is in use if
games/system disk activity actually causes paging.

However it isn't a big deal .. apart from the odd game, and fast user
switching, most things that start heavily using pagefile are running so
horribly slowly at that point (and noisy too!) that running out and
buying some more RAM is the only sensible defence.
 
Bruce said:
Configuring Paging Files for Optimization and Recovery in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q314482
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Which is in my view suspect. If it said 'physical disk' wherever (or
almost wherever) it says 'partition' then it would be a different
matter. But it misses the point that in file access, whether page
file or any other file, the critical timing element is seek time. So
if you have it in a different partition on the *same* disk, you almost
ensure the slowest operation, by forcing seeks right across the disk on
every access. Though really with modern size RAM the amount of actual
page file traffic is so low that the point is largely academic

See my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
 
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