Vladimir Stefanovic wrote: > Is there any real benefit of making another partition for > storing pagefile.sys (swap file)?
No, it's not only not a benefit, it's a detriment.What it does is move the page file to a location on the hard drive distant from the other frequently-used data on the drive. The result is that every time Windows needs to use the page file, the time to get to it and back from it is increased.
> Also, what about making such partition on another HD?
Putting the page file on a second *physical* drive is a good idea, since it decreases head movement, but not to a second partition on a single drive. A good rule of thumb is that the page file should be on the most-used partition of the least-used physical drive. For almost everyone with a single drive, that's C:.
If you have enough RAM, the penalty formoving the page file to a second partition may be slight, since you won't use the page file much, but it won't help you.
Also, the other problem with a separate partition like this is that you run the risk of making it too small, in which case programs will fail for lack of virtual memory, or too large, which is wasteful of disk space. If you leave it on C:, it can expand or contract as needed.
> Is making a fixed size swap, of 4GB for example, better > than "Let Windows to choose..." ?
No. 4GB is *way* more than almost anyone needs.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
Vladimir Stefanovic wrote: > Thank you for the detailed explanation.
> You answers were very useful, indeed.
If you mean me, you're welcome. But for the future, may I ask you to please quote the message you'ree responding to, as I did above. Without a quote it's very difficult to be sure to whom or to what you are responding, and in many cases, your message turns out to incomprehensible without a quote. It may seem apparent to you that you're replying to the message directly above yours, but not everybiody keeps already-read messages (I don't, for example) and not everybody sorts messages the same way you do.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize and a copy was sent to the cited author.]
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:52:21 +0100 from Vladimir Stefanovic <antiv...@po.sbb.co.yu>:
> Thank you for the detailed explanation.
> You answers were very useful, indeed.
Who is "you"? If it's me, you're welcome; but you got several answers.
Please, in future show some context for what you're talking about. When you write, remember that your readers will not know what you are thinking.
(This doesn't mean quoting teh whole previous article; it means quoting just enough to establish context. Please see http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#quote for some more about this.)
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