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How to configure paging files for optimization

Honestly, this topic has been beaten to death in this forum, and gets brought up every week or two. I've seen that KB article (which is nearly two years old at this point) referenced several times before.

Pagefile placement is pretty damn low on the list of things that will improve your system's performance; if you're hitting the pagefile very often at all, you simply don't have enough RAM. Keeping it unfragmented is also not going to give big improvements, because it is usually accessed in small chunks anyway; it would have to be EXTREMELY fragmented before you noticed a significant slowdown.
 
Well I do have 2GB of ram, oh well I never really looked at this before. It sure sounded nice, to bad, I was hoping it might give a performance boost.

But besides hitting it, what about what MS says here?:

When the paging file is on the boot partition, Windows must perform disk reading and writing requests on both the system folder and the paging file. When the paging file is moved to a different partition, there is less competition between reading and writing requests.
 
When the paging file is on the boot partition, Windows must perform disk reading and writing requests on both the system folder and the paging file. When the paging file is moved to a different partition, there is less competition between reading and writing requests.
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If it's on a seperate partition on the same disk you'll just be increasing seek times as the heads will have to move farther when going from partition to partition. Putting the pagefile on the system drive, in the middle of all of the data would be a better solution because then the seek times to get from system files to the pagefile will be really small.
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
But besides hitting it, what about what MS says here?:

When the paging file is on the boot partition, Windows must perform disk reading and writing requests on both the system folder and the paging file. When the paging file is moved to a different partition, there is less competition between reading and writing requests.
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...if you're accessing the pagefile, sure. If you're hitting it very much at all, you either need more RAM or to have less stuff open at once. You're never going to have 'good' performance if you are constantly accessing the pagefile.

But also, like Nothinman said, it has to be balanced against further seeks to actually get to the pagefile and back. Putting it on its own drive is definitely superior, but it's still going to be very slow compared to real RAM.
 
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