page file

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Fabrizio

Hi!!
What is the page file? How can I make it smaller? Is it safe to reduce its
size?

Thanks

Fab
 
If you are wanting to reduce the size of the pagefile to save space, you
will be making a false economy.. performance will be affected.. better to
either replace the drive with a larger one or add a slave drive to your
system.. unless the drive is really quite old, I prefer to add a slave
drive..
 
Thanks to all of you for your help!!

Fab

Mike Hall said:
If you are wanting to reduce the size of the pagefile to save space, you
will be making a false economy.. performance will be affected.. better to
either replace the drive with a larger one or add a slave drive to your
system.. unless the drive is really quite old, I prefer to add a slave
drive..
Click to expand...
 
Mike said:
If you are wanting to reduce the size of the pagefile to save space, you
will be making a false economy.. performance will be affected.. better to
either replace the drive with a larger one or add a slave drive to your
system.. unless the drive is really quite old, I prefer to add a slave
drive..
Click to expand...

This is a false generalization. In cases where you have more than
adequate memory for your requirements, the demand paging system actually
degrades performance. When I disabled the swap file in Win98SE I had a
huge improvement in performance. When I disabled the XP pagefile I
didn't get much of a change (but then I had only used XP for a day or
two total so don't have much to compare with).
 
All versions of Windows were designed to use a pagefile (swapfile).. filling
a drive to almost total capacity and having removed the swapfile will
definitely affect performance adversely.. In one of the reply posts to the
original posting is a link to a page that explains this..
 
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