page file

[989MOB]

Is it better to have the page file on seperate harddrive from the OS?
this is with WinXP and two cuda IV and 3x256 pc2100
Regards

[Grrr!!]

From what I've seen and heard no.

:rolleyes: It can also give massive problems if one of your hard disks fail.

[Geek4Life]

As far as I am aware it is a good idea to have the swap file on a different HDD or partition. As it will prevent fragmentation. If on another HDD it *should* be faster as well.

[GriffiN]

Well thats helpful - two answers and both the opposite.

I'm going with what Geek4Life said, it's not really 'better', but faster as said above.
I've never heard anyone say it was a bad idea.
Do a google search for pagefile - should be able to find some helpful stuff.
And i'm sure that most will recommend putting it alone if possible.

[_N_]

having it on a different partition, won't make it faster or slower, but when it comes to defrag, it won't get in the way if it's on a seperate partition, :)

[Agent666]

it will make it faster if there is lots of disk IO's and the page file needs to be used....... but apart from that small gain not a lot of difference... also it will be dependent on the relative speeds of the 2 hard discs in question.......

[SilverPriest]

Have a read thru this article (http://www.icrontic.com/index.php?page=public/articles&articleId=80)
Lots of good info there :)

[KingJackal]

Yeah - with the amount of RAM you've got I wouldn't bother. Unless you're using some VERY, VERY heavy memory-gobbling apps...

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by Grrr!!
:rolleyes: It can also give massive problems if one of your hard disks fail.
that would be be true I think. As it will go to put the pagefile on the removed drive.

[Agent666]

thats bollocks.......... I am afraid ..... it makes no difference .......

put your page file on a HD then unplug it....... no problem..... it just operates with no page file........

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by Agent666
thats bollocks.......... I am afraid ..... it makes no difference .......

put your page file on a HD then unplug it....... no problem..... it just operates with no page file........
well once you started doing some intensive stuff and needed to use the pagefile, then you'd start getting memory errors and the like.

[KingJackal]

Yeah - but did you check out his RAM specs?

989MOB, feel free to tell us what the heavy work your rig gets used for is....
;)

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by KingJackal
Yeah - but did you check out his RAM specs?

989MOB, feel free to tell us what the heavy work your rig gets used for is....
;)
Yeah good point, I should have read his post more thoroughly. :(

This is coming from someone with 120MB of RAM. So I kind of like my swapfile.

[Agent666]

Originally posted by Geek4Life

well once you started doing some intensive stuff and needed to use the pagefile, then you'd start getting memory errors and the like.

well if a HD fails then you just put the pagefile on your existing drive.. hardly a big drama...... ;)

[SecretSquirrel]

Unless something has changed since 2k, if you're using a different drive to put your swapfile on, and it fails, windows will make a swapfile on your windows drive, it always has, always will. It will always need even the smallest swapfile, even if you manage to buy 4 bejiggerbytes of RAM.