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Stripping Page File across Multiple Hard drives
Posted by 456 on January 15th, 2008


This is an incredible tweak that has improved the performance of my
system by leaps and bounds.
There have been lots of articles and tweaks concerning the Page File.
I have tried them all, however... http://online-windows-xp.blogspot.com/

Posted by Gerry on January 15th, 2008



In earlier NT systems it was usual to have such a file on each hard
drive partition, if there were more than one partition, with the idea of
having the file as near as possible to the 'action' on the disk. In XP
the optimisation implied by this has been found not to justify the
overhead, and normally there is only a single page file in the first
instance.

Source: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm


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Hope this helps.

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456 wrote:


Posted by philo on January 16th, 2008



"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23xgvC98VIHA.4972@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

If you have enough RAM...
then I doubt if the page file size or placement comes into play anyway



Posted by Al Dykes on January 16th, 2008


In article <y_KdnWqPn-0azRDanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@athenet.net>,
philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:


Size and placement isn't the issue, it's reads and writes per second.

This is roughly related to "Page Faults" and "PF Delta" in
taskmanager, which can be selected in View/Select Columns








Posted by Boris on January 21st, 2008


"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:y_KdnWqPn-0azRDanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@athenet.net...
started running pretty slowly. The total memory usage almost never got over
0.5GB...so I just completely disabled the pagefile. After that the system
became much snappier.

Boris



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