Pagefile Issue

[Hani]

Hey,

I have a question. I own a 80GB hard disk, divided equally into C & D partitions. Windows and programs are installed on C, and pc games are installed on D. Should i put a page file on both partitions, or one is enough? Also, I have 768 RAM. What size should i allocate to the page file?

Thanks for the support,

Hani

[leesmithg]

  Hani said:

Hey,

I have a question. I own a 80GB hard disk, divided equally into C & D partitions. Windows and programs are installed on C, and pc games are installed on D. Should i put a page file on both partitions, or one is enough? Also, I have 768 RAM. What size should i allocate to the page file?

Thanks for the support,

Hani

Yes share it equally.

I created a partition just for the page/swap file.

If you don't have a spare partition then share it between them both.

[Hani]

What do you mean by sharing? Making one for both, or one for each? And how can i make one for both?

[Garry]

It won't matter what you do. If you only have one physical hard drive then the read/write head can only read/write one thing at a time anyway, no matter which partition it's on.

If you had two hard drives, you could read/write data/apps/etc from one while paging to/from the other, speeding things up.

[Hani]

So i should put the file only on one partition? (say C), how large should it be?

[Colin-uk Veteran]

putting your pagefile on its own partition, increases disk usage and can wear it out more quickly

I leave my pagefile where it is since i only have one physical hard disk, I let windows manage the size of it :)

[Garry]

  Hani said:

So i should put the file only on one partition? (say C), how large should it be?

Just let Windows manage it. It does a fairly good job.

If you MUST set it manually, then best practise is 1.5x the amount of RAM you have, so 1152MB.