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Windows XP - Page File Conclusions

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gizbug

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Ok. I have 512 meg of Crucial 2700 DDR ram.
I have 3 harddrives. I am still trying to find out what the optimum setup would be for my page file.
Right now I have 128 min/max on my C partition (where OS is) , 256 min/max on my D drive, and 256 min/max on me E drive.


Suggestions?

 
I'd leave it the way it is, although you're probably not paging to disk enought to really notice anyway.
 
Run all the programs you would ever run simultaneously to create a heavy load situation. Start up an antivirus scan, run a couple of windows of your browser, open up excel and word and access - just create a big load. Now open up task manager and look at your peak commit charge. That number will tell you how memory windows has used at its peak usage. Any amount greater than you physical RAM is being used from your swapfile. My peak commit charge only very rarely exceeds my physical memory in Win2k and I have only 256MB RAM. If you find the same, I would get rid of the swapfile on the OS drive and leave the recommended amount on your other drives.
 
With no swap file on the os drive, then I can no longer due small mem dumps on errors. That would be ok?

 
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