Page filing question

[ComatoseDelirium]

I have a P4 3.0 GHZ, with 512 MB of system memory, I have 2 hard drives, my main is a 20 gig drive(NTFS), that I store the OS on, the second is a storage drive that has 60 gigs(FAT32) of space, I have virtual memory set at initial 768 to 1536 maximum on the storage drive, the storage drive only has 2.5 gigs left on it, while the main drive has 7.5 gigs left on it.

1. Which would be better to have the virtual memory on?

2. Would it even make a difference?

 

[stevty2889]

Are you hitting the page file often? I imagine your 20gb is probably a slower 5400RPM drive, so it would hurt performance to put the page file on there if you are hitting the page file often. Why using FAT32 for the larger drive?? It's less efficiant and wastes more space..

 

[VERTIGGO]

its usually much better to have the paging file at the beginning of the second drive (meaning you disable the page file, restart, and then enable it on the second drive, when its empty and just formatted. this puts it at the beginning of the drive which has the highest read/write speed).

It's only a bad idea if your second drive is much slower than your first one. I have mine at the beginning of my second raptor, which is my fastest drive.

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

Sevty both are 7200RPM IDE

 

[VERTIGGO]

if theyre the same speed, throw some data on the first drive, and give the second one at least 1.5GB of page file. also, if you use anything like Photoshop, throw the scratch file on that second drive as well.

how much ram do you run? if you have 1GB you should have no problems, but with 2GB your pagefile (although it will still be accessed) will not slow you down at all.