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pagefile sizes
Name: Sean Date: July 25, 2001 at 01:38:33 Pacific
Comment:
hi. i'm using an old dell p75 machine with a 540mb hard disk. i've added a second 540mb hard disk. there is 64mb of ram. should i have a pagefile on both drives, and if so what size? the machine seems really slow (slower than usual, that is). cheers
Name: Naji Date: July 25, 2001 at 04:07:04 Pacific
Reply:
yes it's recommended that you use the pagefile in more than one drive for a good performance. but you have to check what application you use to configure your pagefile
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Response Number 2
Name: Al Tietz Date: July 25, 2001 at 07:01:04 Pacific
Reply:
I can't beleive my MCP tests actually helped.
You want to have the pagefile on a partition that is not on the same partition as the system files.
If you have 3 or more hard drives, it's best to have them on the 2 that don't have the system partition, etc...
And a random rule of thumb was to have a pagefile double the size of the memory. In your case, 64 MG RAM = 128 MG Virtual.
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Summary: Yes you should still have a pagefile. As a rule your minimum pagefile needs to be the size of your memory plus 11. The reason for this is when NT crashes it dumps the contents of memory into the pag...
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