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Win XP Pro page file settings with partitioned drive

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KingDog

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Here is my setup

HD#1 - (80 Gig total)

C) Win XP -10 Gig
D) Apps - 20 Gig
E) Music Apps- 30 Gig
F) Games - 20 Gig

Hd #2 (80 Gig Total)

G) Video editing - 80 Gig

I have every drive letter set to "let Windows manage" the page file.
Is this the correct way to do this or on HD#1 should I only have this for the (C) drive and the others use no page file?
Also, then does HD#2 (G) which is not partitioned and I only use for video editing need a page file?

Right now with WIN XP managing the page file on each drive letter it is reserving 1.5 my total RAM which is 640 X 1.5 or 960MB on each drive. I have the space, and just want things to run the most efficiently.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks.
 
No need to have so many page files. I have XP Pro on three systems - two of them have 6 partitions each. The last partition is primarily used only for page file and CDR/RW caching. A single page file on a semi-dedicated partition that also is fixed in size is very efficient, and does not impact of optimization of the program and data virtual drives.

 
If your going to be running video editing you do not want to have the page file running on the HD you are working on. You also dont want to split the page file up among differant partitions on the same drive because it will force windows back and forth between the partitions decreasing performance in the swap file. Lastly you would want the swap file at the front of the drive because that's the fastests. If I were in your situation I would:
1. Set the swap to be windows managed on just your "C" drive
2. Dont put anything else on your other HD but video.

Just to make sure because many people get this wrong, these HDs are on differant IDE channels right?

-Spy
 
Thanks for the ideas. It did not seem to make sense the way I was doing it.

The way the Hard drives are installed is as follows:

Maxtor (Promise) ATA 133 hard drive controller is being used for both drives.
I have them both on the same cable that came with the Maxtor as Master/Slave setup on channel one on the Promise Controller.
I have nothing on the Promise Controller channel 2.
HD#1 is a Western Digital ATA 100 7200 rpm and is running at UDMA 5 according to the boot up screen. This is my boot drive.
HD #2 (the video drive) is the Maxtor ATA 133 7200 rpm and is running at UDMA 6 according to the boot up screen for the controller upon post.

IDE channel 1 on motherboard (ASUS P3-BF) - nothing is on it.
IDE channel 2 on motherboard - Primary is Lite On 52X, slave is Lite On 16X RW. ( I want to leave this as it works perfect and CD-RW drives can be picky).

For information sake, I have a P3 1.1 Gig CPU and 640 MB of PCI 133 sdram running at 100.

If I understand what people are saying, I should only use one page file and stick it on the first partition (Win XP) on the first HD#1.
I should get rid of all of the other page files.
And, finally, I probably should put HD#1 on the first channel on the Promise controller and HD#2 on the second channel on the Promise controller.

Out of curiosity, what is the performance issue with the hard drives being on the same channel?

 


<< Out of curiosity, what is the performance issue with the hard drives being on the same channel? >>


When you have devices sharing an IDE channel the 2 devices cannot be written to or read from at any point in time. Only one device can be "talking" at any point in time, therefore with 2 seperate drives only one can be used at a time.

-Spy
 
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