moeburn Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 My system: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6ghz 4GB DDR3 RAM ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5 Sys drive - Western Digital 500GB - 40mB/s write Storage drive - Western Digital 200GB - 40mB/s writ I ran into a situation the other day that I THINK was related to inadequate RAM. I only have 4GB of RAM, and I only had a 4GB page file on my system drive. After trying to run Adobe After Effects with a 14GB video loaded, with Chrome and uTorrent open in the background, after rendering was done my system ground to a halt. Even though no processing was actually being done, my harddrive light was strobing and I had to reboot just to get out of it. So I'm wondering, can I set the page file to a secondary drive that doesn't contain the system files or the large video files? I assume it would be a little faster, whether it fixes my specific problem or not, but would it cause additional problems down the road? Do I HAVE to have the paging file on the system drive, as is default? My 2nd HD has the same read/write speed as my main drive, which is strange because it is nearly twice as old. (and PLEASE don't say just buy more RAM or a faster HD, believe me an 8GB pair and an SSD are the first things on my list as soon as I can afford it.) EDIT: I just re-created the scenario while running Performance Monitor to check the total committed bytes to memory, and during the AE render it appears to be maxing out at about 5,280GB. Since I have 4GB of RAM, that would imply I only need 1,184GB of paging file. Strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan R. Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 It's pretty common to have the page file on a non-system drive. If excessive paging is what you were experiencing, it should help quite a bit depending on the speed of your secondary drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPreston Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 just set the paging file size on c: to 0mb and the other drive to whatever you need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Qat Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 This may be of some use: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001293.htm and lots more in depth info if you are interested: http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/12/23/the-pagefile-done-right/ http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh400 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Yes, I stick my page file on my SSD:- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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