XP SP2 with 2GB, pagefile issues

[Jeff Reid]

I've upgraded to 2GB of ram on a multi-hard drive system.
I had specified a partition on a second hard drive at the
location for a fixed sized pagefile.sys, but for some reason
the system, is creating on on my C:\ (boot only, OS is
on F:\) partition.

If I set pagefile to "let system manage" it, I don't see one
on any of my paritions, and the properites / advanced /
performance dialog box shows 0MB of space allocated for
pagefile. Running task manager, it shows a couple of
hundred megabytes being used.

If I try to specify a fixed partition size, it ends up
creating a variable sized one on C:\ instead. Is there
a fix for this?

 

[Guest]

After you make a change you must click set 2X.For the other drives,go
to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a partition,then go to action,
all,select "make partition active" if the text is available,then close out.
Reopen advanced in system properties and enable.For boards with more
than 512mb of ram,you can/should disable the paging executive,open regedit,
expand:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\then open MemoryManagement.L.click onisablePagingExecutive
Then go to edit,modify,set to 1 from 0 Then close out regedit,restart
computer.

 

[Mark Jacobs]

And adjust the settings in

hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session
manager\subsystems\windows

so that the line reads

%SystemRoot%\system32\csrss.exe ObjectDirectory=\Windows
SharedSection=2048,4096,2048 Windows=On SubSystemType=Windows
ServerDll=basesrv,1 ServerDll=winsrv:UserServerDllInitialization,3
ServerDll=winsrv:ConServerDllInitialization,2 ProfileControl=Off
MaxRequestThreads=16

or whatever suits your needs.
--
Mark Jacobs

| After you make a change you must click set 2X.For the other drives,go
| to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a partition,then go to action,
| all,select "make partition active" if the text is available,then close out.
| Reopen advanced in system properties and enable.For boards with more
| than 512mb of ram,you can/should disable the paging executive,open regedit,
| expand:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
| Manager\then open MemoryManagement.L.click onisablePagingExecutive
| Then go to edit,modify,set to 1 from 0 Then close out regedit,restart
| computer.
|
| "Jeff Reid" wrote:
|
| > I've upgraded to 2GB of ram on a multi-hard drive system.
| > I had specified a partition on a second hard drive at the
| > location for a fixed sized pagefile.sys, but for some reason
| > the system, is creating on on my C:\ (boot only, OS is
| > on F:\) partition.
| >
| > If I set pagefile to "let system manage" it, I don't see one
| > on any of my paritions, and the properites / advanced /
| > performance dialog box shows 0MB of space allocated for
| > pagefile. Running task manager, it shows a couple of
| > hundred megabytes being used.
| >
| > If I try to specify a fixed partition size, it ends up
| > creating a variable sized one on C:\ instead. Is there
| > a fix for this?
| >
| >
| >

 

[Tom]

I've upgraded to 2GB of ram on a multi-hard drive system.
I had specified a partition on a second hard drive at the
location for a fixed sized pagefile.sys, but for some reason
the system, is creating on on my C:\ (boot only, OS is
on F:\) partition.

If I set pagefile to "let system manage" it, I don't see one
on any of my paritions, and the properites / advanced /
performance dialog box shows 0MB of space allocated for
pagefile. Running task manager, it shows a couple of
hundred megabytes being used.

If I try to specify a fixed partition size, it ends up
creating a variable sized one on C:\ instead. Is there
a fix for this?

Read here Jeff, this will help you set it up properly:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

You need to keep at least a very small portion on the system drive, so Windows won't complain or totally ignore made settings, as will be noted in the article.

Also, I wouldn't pay much heed to Andrew E., he is pretty adept at giving wrong advice, as well as misusing properly placed punctuation spacing.

 

[Jeff Reid]

If I try to specify a fixed partition size, it ends up

creating a variable sized one on C:\ instead. Is there
a fix for this?

Read here Jeff, this will help you set it up properly:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

I reposted, the issue seems to a problem trying to put
the pagefile.sys on a striped volume. It works ok if
I assign it to a non-striped volume.

Also interesting was setting all partitions to no page
file. Although the dialog box for advanced settings
showed 0MB for page file, and I couldn't find any instance
of pagefile.sys, task control manager showed one in
use. I just couldn't find out where it was.

I'll check to see if there is some sort of permissions
issue on that striped volume.