How does one move the paging file from the root of c: to another partition but leave a max of about 50 mb of paging in the root of c:

Install Cacheman v5.50 and find out your memory usage instantly at all times from the icon minimized in the tray area.Windows 2000 makes such a good use of RAM compared to Windows ME for example that the paging is reduced to about what you intend to keep on C drive.Reduce the paging to 50 Mb and use RAM instead.If you happen to have 256 Mb or more RAM installed this should do it.I have used this setup for quite a long time now without problems.If the computer needs more you will get a notice on the creen to increase the paging a little at a time. Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Change(the amount of RAM)/Set/Reboot Cacheman v5.50: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=308 From the same place you change the RAM size you can move the RAM to some other hard drive partition as long as the drive you select is on a different PHYSICAL hard drive like a Slave drive.Paging won't be splitted though as you expect but it can be reduced to minimum or moved (and reduced if you need to). Good luck.

I'll bite my tongue and answer the question. I assume you need to free some space on your C partition. If you have more than one physical drive installed, one pagefile per drive is the best option from a performance point of view. Windows will favour the quietest and best performing drive(s) for paging activity. With only one HD installed, the best place for the paging file is the most active partition, as this is where the HD heads will spend most of their time anyway. If you are configuring a busy server, care is needed, as a bad choice of pagefile configuration can seriously impair performance. Access times will incease as the HD heads shuttle between pagefile and other busy files. This in turn leads to OS networking and applications spending more time usimg RAM as they wait for data or paged-out areas, and the OS struggling to provide RAM by paging out lesser-used areas. This means increased RAM usage, leading to more paging... you get the picture - it's called "thrashing", and apart from dreadful server performance, can result in the OS crashing in extreme cases. With sufficient RAM, this is less of a problem of course, but server load can be very "peaky", and performance will degrade rapidly once all RAM is in use and paging activity increases. My choice with a single HD would be to first look at moving some little-used files and/or applications to another partition rather than the pagefile, and ensure new applications are installed elsewhere than C. However, if moving some of the pagefile is your only option, try to leave as much as possible on C, rather than the minimum needed for system dumps. In System Properties/Advanced/Performance Options/Change, simply alter the Min and Max for C to the same setting - whatever you've decided, and click SET. Then set the values for your secondary partition, settin Min to the desired value, but setting Max to a higher value (say 50% bigger) to allow for expansion in emergencies, again click SET. Click OK, and select Change again to check the values have "stuck". Reboot and you're away.

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