Pagefile on separate partitions in Win2000: is that faster?

[Spoooon]

I read somewhere that you can get a slight performance boost by having your pagefile on separate partitions, is that true? Or is it that I'm supposed to put the pagefile on another partition? I have 2 hard drives, both the same speed. My main hard drive is the only thing on it's IDE channel. The secondary channel has the other hard drive as master and the CDROm as slave. What is the best way to set up the pagefile to get any kind of performance boost?

 

[ctll]

i read, on microsoft support i think, many small ones are better than 1 big one. i go for a total of 512, or twice the memory. fixed size, not variable ones.

edit

but if it's w2k, it tells you that it wants one on the system partition, or it will have a prob writing the memory dump in case of system failure.

 

[BadThad]

There is documented evidence that having the page file on a separate drive will speed access, not a different partition, however.

Just make sure the 2nd drive is clean before you set it up, that way it's also contiguous. I also liked a fixed size, not varible. I'm with ctll, 512MB is plenty big. I think the general rule is 3x RAM, correct me if I'm wrong. But 512MB should be no problem.

 

[Spoooon]

Well, I'm going with a pagefile size of 260 megs. I hae 128 megs of ram. 130 megs is on the primary drive, the rest is on the 2nd drive, which is on it's ide channel.

 

[redls1]

I have enough ram but is there a problem with having a bigger one? Say almost a gig. I have extra space and enough ram. Is is just a waste?

 

[Spoooon]

Accessing the pagefile is slower than accessing the ram. Ideally, the more ram you have, the smaller your pagefile ought to be. There is a registry tweak somewhere that forces the os to use ram before the pagefile, making things quicker overall.

 

[bonkers325]

only if it is on another hdd

cheers,
bonkers325

 

[setaanbomb]

You can definitely improve performance by giving each partition its own pagefile. Also placing your pagefile on hard drive other than the one containing your System Partition will boost performance.

 

[BearX00]

You will get increased performance if you make part of the pagefile on a seperate HD. Also the best performance is gotten when you make it a static size, if the size is big enough, then you dont have to worry about memory reallocation for resizing of the pagefile which is a lot of overhead.