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optimal page file in xp

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Bucksnort

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I have xp home and a athlon xp1900 with 1 gig of ram. The page file is set at 1534 meg as system controlled. That seems like a enormous waste of space. What would be optimal custom settings and should I delete c:\pagefile.sys before changing the settings. I notice that if you change the size manually or select no page file and then set the size to a smaller value that it keeps the original pagefile.sys file size when you check the properties of the file.
 
The general MS opinion is to use a pagefile 1.5 times the size of your RAM. Which becomes less and less valid as RAM sizes increase. (remember when it used to be 2.5 times?) I say put it 500MBs altough even at that size its unlikely to fill up.

The best way optimize pagefile is to create a permanent size, set on a different partition or even on a seperate disk on another IDE chain. Just do as much as you can of those options.
 
I have always been told that it is slower to have your page file not on your boot hard drive and/or partition. Is this true?
 
Only becuase the boot partition is usually on the first, outer edges of a platter which is the fastest part of the disk.

If you have a small partition thats, for instance, Drive D: dedicated to the pagefile it won't become fragmented, and also be close enough to the outer
tracks. These are all minor points if you -really- want to optimize as much as you can.

Although with 1GB of RAM it doesn't really matter much.
 
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