Pagefile problem.

[SI110]

Hi, i had to reformat and reinstall after some stupidity with downloaded files,I also deleted my c: before doing so,but not my d:.After install my d: was c:,and Xp was on d:.I always set my pagefile to 512,512,have done so this time on d:,and set c: to no paging file.Windows keeps creating a 1.5 gb pagefile in c:,can i prevent this? I can only delete this file after going back into pagefile properties and reapplying my settings.I am going to start again from scratch anyway but dont want to just yet.Thanks.

[milan]

you are doing really miraculous things with your pc...first of all, XP configures the size of the pagefile automatically(it recognizes the physical RAM and adjusts the pagefile). I do not understand why you have to "set your pagefile" , and why you want to re-allocate it on a different drive.. you even do not tell - how much physical ram you have on your machine, so i cannot tell you much at this stage..

[nukerdna]

What the hell?? i dont really follow what you said... lol :)

[essexman]

you are doing really miraculous things with your pc...first of all, XP configures the size of the pagefile automatically(it recognizes the physical RAM and adjusts the pagefile). I do not understand why you have to "set your pagefile" , and why you want to re-allocate it on a different drive.. you even do not tell - how much physical ram you have on your machine, so i cannot tell you much at this stage..
he has set the page file size because it is meant to speed up your PC.
you put the page file on the drive which has more space. i have no idea y.
i totaly agree y the hell are u changing the page file. there is no need with windows XP as it works out how much is needed. if you have over 512ram you don't need it. :D

[SI110]

he has set the page file size because it is meant to speed up your PC.
you put the page file on the drive which has more space. i have no idea y.
i totaly agree y the hell are u changing the page file. there is no need with windows XP as it works out how much is needed. if you have over 512ram you don't need it. :D
Hi again ,I have 1 gb of pc 2700,I set pagefile because some programs have had trouble in the past when I had no pagefile,didnt work for me.Also ,I only have a single 40 gb drive at present so space is a consideration.As I said,I am going to start from scratch anyway(delete c and d, new partitions,reinstall),I just want to find out if I can stop what is happening now out of curiosity.Thanks.

[DABhand]

Ideally you should set your pagefile size to the same as your ram.

But since you have 1gig RAM I would set to 512 (it probably never use it :P)

But you do get a better performance if set correctly :)

Same with the stupid things with XP, like the font on the desktop being masked (waste of resources) having a nice desktop (waste of resources) personally I set myself with hardly any "nice" things running, even the crappy blue bar and revert to the old style taskbar etc.

[SI110]

Yep,I set min and max to 512,and I prefer eye candy off as well.I have tried different size pagefile and default pagefile and no pagefile,all benchmarks say this is best setup for ME.My last pc was duron 1.3 ,512 ram,mx440,so squeezing performance out for games was necessary.
BUT, can I stop the 1.5 gb pagefile being created?

[milan]

Ideally you should set your pagefile size to the same as your ram.

But since you have 1gig RAM I would set to 512 (it probably never use it :P)

But you do get a better performance if set correctly :)

Same with the stupid things with XP, like the font on the desktop being masked (waste of resources) having a nice desktop (waste of resources) personally I set myself with hardly any "nice" things running, even the crappy blue bar and revert to the old style taskbar etc.


This is not correct. The ideal size of the pagefile corresponds to 1.5 times of the physical RAM. This is exactly the reason why Windows makes for him
a 1.5Gb pagefile.(you can even set the pagefile 2 times the RAM, under some
conditions)

The other thing regarding the topic..
You should not decompose the pagefile. The real speed that comes from
XP and DDR-RAM + pentium 4, comes from using parallel RAM slots.
So if you have 2 * 512 .. thats better than having 1 * 1024..
and 3 * 512 is faster than 1*1024 + 512.
But that is the distribution of the physical RAM chips..and NOT the distribution of the PAGEFILE over your harddisk !

[milan]

forgot to make my statement ore precise:

There is no point in splitting up the paging file between multiple partitions as it does not increase the ability of the hard disk to access the paging file.

But it makes sense again to split it over multiple physical hard-disks, but then both harddrives should have te same speed.

[essexman]

well i have a 1gb of ram and i have never had to use/increase the pagefile.
i run a lot of crap on my pc

[NorthViking]

I let Windows determine the size.

I read that filepage should be 1.5 x ram size, not same as ram size.

[alex_hangks]

Hi...I agree that the pagefile should be more than the physical RAM. This is one of the Windows settings for the swap file manager to utilise the RAM and the page file (also known as virtual memory or swap file). The page file is supposed to act like a mirror for the physical RAM. Whenever a new program is openned, the swap file manager will try to "consult" the availability of physical RAM. If there is not enough space in the physical RAM, then the program residing in the physical RAM will be swapped to the virtual memory.

For an example, if there is already a program being openned and it takes 700MB of your physical RAM. When you try to open another program which needs 500MB, the swap file manager will move the 700MB program to the virtual memory to make the physical memory available for the 500MB program.

Sorry if my explanation sounds confusing but...i'm trying my best to summarize this up.... :blaccry

[SI110]

Yes,but can I stop the 1.5gb pagefile being created as described in my first post?