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Quinoa S
March 28th 03, 03:38 PM
Wow - thanks for the detailed information!

Quinoa S

"Ron Martell" > wrote in message
...
> "Quinoa S" > wrote:
>
> >Ah...so the idea of putting the paging file on a separate disk to
increase
> >performance no longer applies with XP (since the paging file needs to be
on
> >the boot partition for certain purposes)? This is relevent for me as I
will
> >shortly be getting a second hard disk.
> >
>
> Windows XP supports multiple page files and with two physical drives it is
> worthwhile configuring a page file on each drive.
>
> The major page file should be on the drive that is least used, and if that
> is not the boot drive then there should be a second, smaller, page on the
> boot drive that is at least equal to the size specified for the system
> failure memory dump.
>
> In my own computer I also have two physical drives. My page file
> configuration is to have 100 minimum 800 maximum on the second hard drive
> (used mainly for CD Images and large downloads) and on the boot drive I
> have it configured as 10 mb minimum and 50 mb maximum. The memory dump is
> configured to the small 64KB version.
>
> The page file on the boot drive is pretty much never used and I have never
> seen it to increase to more than the 10 mb minimum size setting. The page
> file on the second drive does get used and on occasion has gotten larger
> than the 100 mb minimum setting. My system has 480 mb (512 - 32 video) of
> RAM.
>
> Hope this clarifies the situation.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
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