virtual memory question

[Dorkenstein]

Okay, I have 8 gb of ram. Right now I have the page file set to be 1500mb-1500mb total on a non-os hard drive. Is there any advantage at all if I set a page file on the os drive as well? Tweakhound or somewhere else said that this will allow windows to use whichever one isn't as busy. Also, what size should the page file be optimally for 8gb of ram? Thanks for any answers, other forums seem to have many many different opinions and this forum probably is no different but I value the opinions here a lot more since I post here regularly.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Just let windows manage ONE page file on your OS drive... With 8GB you won't be writing to it a lot anyway.

 

[Nothinman]

You can put a pagefile on every physical drive and Windows will indeed use the one with the least I/O at the moment but I doubt you're using enough pagefile space to notice any difference. Just let the OS manage it and forget about it.

 

[Dorkenstein]

So, it SHOULD go on the OS partition? Or just the same drive as the OS? Thanks.

 

[geokilla]

There was a topic on another forum where the forum members put the page file on the secondary hard drive, and their computer was a bit faster. The speed difference isn't noticeable, but since you have an extra hard drive, just put that page file in the secondary hard drive and leave it be.

If I remember that thread correctly, they also said that having the page file 2X your RAM amount was faster than having it at say just 1GB when you have 2GB RAM. I can't comment on this, and the speed difference is probably not noticeable.

 

[Nothinman]

So, it SHOULD go on the OS partition? Or just the same drive as the OS? Thanks.

It should go on the least used partition of your least used drive. But in reality your OS partition is usually good enough, you'll never be able to measure a real difference.