TEST: Putting Swap file on a RAMDisk

[bob4432]

personally, imo, this is where you will see the benefits of a fast seek time hdd if you don't go with 2GB of ram. for me, the choice is/was scsi, for others it might be a raptor, whichever as long as the seek time is low.

i have gamed in bf2 and hit 1.4GB of total memory usage, and i only have 1GB of ram, so that means i hit the pagefile for 400MB, but didn't notice it.

in the past when i have used a ide 7200rpm hdd as my system hdd, i would feel it in games when it would hit the pagefile, but when i made the switch to a 10k rpm scsi system hdd (which is where i have my os, programs including games and pagefile located), i don't notice it at all.

but, it is probably cheaper for most to just get another 1GB of ram which would negate the issues when hitting the pagefile when gaming and this would be my recommendation. although if you have a a64 system you will have to slow down or run the ram @ 2T if you run 4 sticks, but i don't know how much of an impact on performance that would have vs the gain of the machine not hitting the pagefile, maybe somebody else can answer that.

 

[McPudd]

I'm with Pariah.
Here is a good page on the topic.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

When I set my XP HE system up, I left a small pagefile
on C: (2-50MB); then created a 10GB pagefile dedicated partition on
my second HDD (the first partition) and created a 1600-4090MB pagefile there.
I forget now why I set it up exactly that way but XP soon found the larger pagefile space/partition
and began using it instead of the small one on C:
My system has 1GB RAM (RIMMs) and no memory issues.

Happy trailz,