Should I create virtual memory for the areas of disk where OS is *not* located

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There are no pagefiles on those areas now. Should I set some amount of
pagefiles to improve the performance of OS?

Thank you.
 
john said:
There are no pagefiles on those areas now. Should I set some amount of
pagefiles to improve the performance of OS?

Thank you.
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You should only have one pagefile configured for each physical hard
drive, no matter how many partitions that drive has been divided into.

And that pagefile is best left on the boot partition (e.g. C:)

If you have more than one physical hard drive then you can configure a
pagefile on each of them, and that will provide some performance
benefits if you are actually making extensive use of the pagefile.

Good luck


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