Page File on 2nd drive?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Elmo Watson
  • Start date Start date
E

Elmo Watson

My wife's Win2k computer had a 40gb hard drive, with only 6.5gb left of free
space. There was so little space left, it was hard to defragment.

So I got a second drive (D:\) - I moved the files (7gb worth) of My
Documents files to the D: drive.

But then, I started wondering about also moving the page file there
also - - - -

Would moving the Page File over to the D drive help or hinder the speed of
the system?
 
Elmo Watson said:
My wife's Win2k computer had a 40gb hard drive, with only 6.5gb left of free
space. There was so little space left, it was hard to defragment.

So I got a second drive (D:\) - I moved the files (7gb worth) of My
Documents files to the D: drive.

But then, I started wondering about also moving the page file there
also - - - -

Would moving the Page File over to the D drive help or hinder the speed of
the system?
Click to expand...

It wouldn't make much of a difference. However, a more
logical division would be to move her data files to the new
disk. The first disk would then be used for Windows and
for her applications, the second for data. It makes backing
up things much, much easier!
 
I've already moved all 7gb of My Documents over to the new drive. I'm sure
there are some other places, but that will take some time to find...
The Page file is so big - I thought that it would at least, free up a lot of
space....

If it won't impact the system speed, I guess my next question is to find out
how to move the Page file to a different drive...

anyone?
 
Elmo Watson said:
I've already moved all 7gb of My Documents over to the new drive. I'm sure
there are some other places, but that will take some time to find...
The Page file is so big - I thought that it would at least, free up a lot of
space....

If it won't impact the system speed, I guess my next question is to find out
how to move the Page file to a different drive...

anyone?
Click to expand...

Start, settings, control panel, system. Click on the advanced tab and
select "Performance Options". Click "Change" by the Virtual Memory label.

Select the second drive and create a page file there of the recommended size
and click the "Set" button, then select your "C" drive and set the page file
to initial = 0 and Maximum = 0, click the "Set" button again..

You'll have to reboot after you do this.
 
Your paging file is probably less than 1 GByte. According
to your first post, your wife has used some 34 GBytes of
drive C:. Assuming that Windows takes 5 GBytes, this
leaves some 29 GBytes of data files. That's much, much
more than what is used by the paging file!
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
It wouldn't make much of a difference.
Click to expand...

Was that due to amount being moved? If not then I am surprised you don't
mention that having the pagefile on a different spindle [drive] from that of
the OS is a MS RECOMMENDATION. At the server level this is part of proper
server design which is to optimize disk io and eliminate contention which is
what you get between system file reads/writes and pagefile ops.
 
Unless the drive controller supports asynchronous reads/writes it probably
wouldn't make much (if any) difference.

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Was that due to amount being moved? If not then I am surprised you don't
| mention that having the pagefile on a different spindle [drive] from that
of
| the OS is a MS RECOMMENDATION. At the server level this is part of proper
| server design which is to optimize disk io and eliminate contention which
is
| what you get between system file reads/writes and pagefile ops.
 
Back
Top