Redirecting Paging file

[Dave]

Hello,

I am seeking information to see if it is possible to
redirect your paging file to a remote network drive. I
have done some testing in system information properties to
see if this is possible and what I have found is that in
order for a drive to show up as a paging file it must have
the fixed media property attached to it.

Could anyone verify this for me, or post any workarounds
on this?

Thanx,

Dave

 

[Rob Stow]

Hello,

I am seeking information to see if it is possible to
redirect your paging file to a remote network drive. I
have done some testing in system information properties to
see if this is possible and what I have found is that in
order for a drive to show up as a paging file it must have
the fixed media property attached to it.

Could anyone verify this for me, or post any workarounds
on this?

No. The page file must be on a local fixed disk.

You wouldn't want it on a remote disk anyway - performance
would be abyssmal. Keep in mind that the page file is
part of the memory management system - slowing it down by
putting it on a remote drive would be a big no-no. And no
matter how much RAM you have you will never eliminate the
need for frequent page file accesses just because of how
MicroSoft implemented memory management in Windows.

And if there were network problems preventing access to the
remote disk when swapping needed to be done you could see
applications or the OS hanging or crashing when they try to
swap things in or out of RAM.