You probably don't need 3GB of RAM then :) [In which case, you also won't see any improvement from moving it around, of course]
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Mats
Maybe not, but what's the point of removing it? :D
That's not what I meant, and I think you know it. But the location of the page-file is pretty meaningless if it's not being used. In fact, I saw a link to somewhere "how to disable pagefile" or some such. Can't remember where I saw it, but it can be done - of course, if your app by mistake happens to start allocating tons of memory, you may run out all of a sudden, which is no good when you have no way to extend the memory... Pagefile gives you that option.
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Mats
Also, when you defrag your C: drive, if you see those big green blocks that are unmovable -- that would be your pagefile. By moving it to it's own partition, the Windows Defrag program (which is pretty inept to begin with) has more room to work with, which is always a good thing when your dealing with MS Defrag.
If you move your pagefile to a completely separate hard disk, you'd probably notice more of a difference than just putting it on a separate partition, but then who really feels like wasting a whole HD just for the pagefile?
You can use perfmon to record all read/write activity to your pagefile. I'll bet yours is still being used a lot even though you're not using your full 3GB of RAM.
Yes, page files can be disabled, but it's not a good idea, usually. I'd love if Windows could actually keep everything in memory without paging it (unless it finds that the 3 GB of physical memory is exceeded), but unfortunately this is not so. The pagefile is not recommended to disable.
MS Defrag is crap and you know it. I use an excellent 3rd part solution for this. And since the pagefile is locked in size, it doesn't get fragmented plus there's 16.7 GB (out of 40 GB) free on the system partition - more than enough to defrag properly.
Like I mentioned before, I never noticed any huge speed performance increase when I did that (I have 4 HDs).Quote:
If you move your pagefile to a completely separate hard disk, you'd probably notice more of a difference than just putting it on a separate partition, but then who really feels like wasting a whole HD just for the pagefile?
Yes, of course. That's how windows works. It always pages things out to the pagefile. But performance is sound, nevertheless.Quote:
You can use perfmon to record all read/write activity to your pagefile. I'll bet yours is still being used a lot even though you're not using your full 3GB of RAM.