Hi....I have 4 drives installed:
"C" = 11.3GB
"D" = 8.96GB
"E" = 9.25GB
"F" = 1.50
At the moment each drive setting for virtual memory is system managed ( 766MG ), what i want to know is having your system manage the memory the best thing to do as i have read that some people disable this altogether and others increase it. I use my comp for mainly gameplay so want to ensure smooth running fps etc, I have 512 MG ram and am running a Athlon 1.6GHZ+ XP. Also do I need to set virtual memory for each drive or just the main "C" drive?.
Thanks in advance...A thickie !

C@rtman,
When your computer is running low on RAM and more is needed immediately to complete your current task, Windows XP uses hard drive space to simulate system RAM. In Windows XP, this is known as Virtual Memory, and often called the pagefile. This is similar to the UNIX swapfile. The default size of the virtual memory pagefile (appropriately named pagefile.sys) created during installation is 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your computer.In your case it would be 768MB. You can optimize virtual memory use by dividing the space between multiple drives and especially by removing it from slower or heavily accessed drives. To best optimize your virtual memory space, divide it across as many physical hard drives as possible. When selecting drives, keep the following guidelines in mind:

Try to avoid having a pagefile on the same drive as the system files. Avoid putting a pagefile on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored volume or a RAID-5 volume. Pagefiles don't need fault-tolerance, and some fault-tolerant systems suffer from slow data writes because they write data to multiple locations. Also, don't place multiple pagefiles on different partitions on the same physical disk drive.

Hope this helps,
Murray