XP pagefile & fragmentation

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

I had two questions about XP

If I manually set the pagefile on c:\ will it lead to less fragmentation
than system managed or will it not matter ?

and does the pagefile cause fragmenation on the whole volume it's on or just
to itself ?

Thank you for the answers to these.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello everyone,

I had two questions about XP

If I manually set the pagefile on c:\ will it lead to less fragmentation
than system managed or will it not matter ?

and does the pagefile cause fragmenation on the whole volume it's on or just
to itself ?

Thank you for the answers to these.

It doesn't matter. Because the page file is accessed randomly anyway,
fragmentation of it is not an issue.

 

[Rock]

Hello everyone,

I had two questions about XP

If I manually set the pagefile on c:\ will it lead to less fragmentation
than system managed or will it not matter ?

and does the pagefile cause fragmenation on the whole volume it's on or
just
to itself ?

Thank you for the answers to these.

System managed can lead to greater fragmentation in the page file but it's
not really a performance problem because of the way it's accessed.