Page file performance?
Your-Amish-Daddy
The heart of Texas
Ok since I don't have the extra scratch to drop another stick of gold in my machine right now (Plumbing disaster! OH NOZ!) I need better page file performance. For deliberation and study, Let me describe my disk arrays for you.
IDE: Maxtor 200GB holds the OS drive, and the page file.
SATA: Contains a very haphazard array of unorganized disks that I mainly use for storage, but SATA01 has all of my installed games, and my steam directory. SATA02 is the primary backup of 271GB of crap, and SATA03 holds my TiVo recordings, and my book.
Is there any way I can squeeze a bit more page file performance out? It's already set to 4096 for size. I can't use SATA for my OS, or I would.
IDE: Maxtor 200GB holds the OS drive, and the page file.
SATA: Contains a very haphazard array of unorganized disks that I mainly use for storage, but SATA01 has all of my installed games, and my steam directory. SATA02 is the primary backup of 271GB of crap, and SATA03 holds my TiVo recordings, and my book.
Is there any way I can squeeze a bit more page file performance out? It's already set to 4096 for size. I can't use SATA for my OS, or I would.
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How much ram do you have?
Setup a seperate pagefile on ALL your fast drives. Make sure it is in a faster portion of the drive and as much as possible not fragmented.
Your done!
Cowboy
When you install an OS on a drive/Partition then go check the pagefile right away! Thrax is right that you do not want it at the end but.. the key is to have it close to the OS and programs. So if the OS/Programs (which should be together) is in the middle then you want the pagefile there also. You do not want the pagefile fragmented a ton or at the end of the drive. It should be CLOSE to the OS and Programs!
The key for performance is NOT making it a seperate partition if its far from the OS and Programs though! The only advantage to having a seperate partition is in keeping it non fragmenated which is really easy anyway. MM was wrong in the way he said to chop up a drive into a ton of partitions in his guides. You want the OS, Programs and Pagefile as close as possible, not seperated if you want peak performance. The rest is just to ease housekeeping which is easy anyways. You want the heads moving as SHORT a distance as possible for hits on the OS, Programs and Pagefile and you want all 3 to be non-fragmented.
Cowboy