Well, I dramatically (and stupidly, as it turns out) reduced the "initial
size" for the paging file on each of the three drives, and I have had
serious problems ever since. Here's what happens:
No matter what I do, Windows sees only 20 MB allocated to the paging file.
In other words, I can't get the "Total paging file size for all drives"
value on the Performance Options dialog to be anything but 20 MB. And no
matter which initial/maximum sizes I choose, Windows gives me an error
dialog upon boot (paging file is too small, and so on...).
I've tried putting the page file on C:\ alone, and I've tried multiple
drives. I've tried zeroing it out and rebooting, then resetting it to the
default values. Nothing works. I simply don't know what else to try. I am
using System Properties, and not the console, to make these changes (I've
read about the known bug regarding the console and page file settings).
I have 320 MB RAM. The initial size I'm trying to go with is perfectly sane
(and it's what Windows defaulted to anyway): 480 MB.
This is driving me nuts, and it's affecting my system. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!
~Milo
"Scott" <sdglo...@NO-SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message news:utWnCARHAHA.247@cppssbbsa05...
Thanks again! (that makes it 1,000,001).
"Milo Bloom" <wh...@mi.com> wrote in message
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~Milo
"Scott" <sdglo...@NO-SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message news:#V69P#RHAHA.196@cppssbbsa04...
>I made the mistake of trying to tweak my paging file by allocating it across
>each of my three physical hard drives. It worked just fine until I read an
>article that said having a too-large paging file can actually hurt
>performance.
Do you still have a link to this article?
Andrej
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Andrej Budja, MCSE+I, MS MVP
"Andrej Budja" <andrej...@no-spam-please.bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:21:08 -0400, "Scott"
> <sdglo...@NO-SPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I made the mistake of trying to tweak my paging file by allocating it
across
> >each of my three physical hard drives. It worked just fine until I read
an
> >article that said having a too-large paging file can actually hurt
> >performance.
>