Page file heavily fragmented!!!

sforzasforza SPAIN
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Hi,

This is the oldest computer at home. Good old athlon 750 slotA. Not the fastest but very reliable.

After months of just defragging it with XP's own defragger, I installed Diskeeper 9.

And found this: "24 fragments on paging file"
http://webs.ono.com/sforza/defrag2.jpg (click to see, the other photo is already big enough)

How can I fix it? Diskeeper9 does nothing to get it together.

I have set virtual memory to a fixed size of 575Mb and computer has 384Mb of ram.

Thanks in advance.

defrag1.jpg

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    You have to do a boot-time defrag. Go to the drive, click "change your settings" and click "set a boot-time defragmentation". Follow the prompts, and make sure "defrag page file" is checked. Reboot and it will defrag the paging file.

    The "manual" way to do it is to turn your page file off on your C: drive, move it to another drive, reboot, defrag C:, move it back to C:, reboot ... As you can see, this is a pain in the ass. :D
  • TmodTmod
    edited December 2004
    Here is a free utility from sysinternals for page defragging.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Tmod, thanks-- just, other who read this, remember that the page file can only be successfully defragged if the rest of the HD is also relatively defragged. Therefore, seek not ONLY to defrag the page file in your overall mainentance strategy.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2004
    Brian: He wouldnt want to defrag it on another machine either. The rest of the data would be at the front of the drive so where does the page go..at the end of the data. The worst spot for it. The page file should be as close to the front of the drive as possible since it gets accessed more.
  • sforzasforza SPAIN
    edited December 2004
    Of course, I always defrag searching for a complete defrag, not only page file or files alone, I want both.

    Thanks primesuspect, I never saw that option. I figured it was some kind of option for the machines on big networks that only are rebooted once a month or less, and then is when they can be defragged, because the rest of the time are 100% working and defrag while working is notpossible due to heavy load, or something like that.

    Now it's running fine.

    Just for the record, it didn't allowed me to make the boot-time defrag of the page file on my first attempt. I have 1.2Gb of free space on that partition and although page file is just 575mb, it said it needed another new 575mb free and together. That's because my free 1.2gb was not contiguous. So I had to defrag using "max free space strategy" before.

    Thanks for your help guys.
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