need help about paging file.?

Question

I have two partitions. disk c and disk d. when i set my paging file on disk c on system managed size its fine but i heard it's faster if i put the paging file on its own disk. so i empty out my disk d (never had much on it) and set the paging file to disk d on system managed size and turn the one on disk c off, it says currently allocated at 2570 mb. the recommended is 1534. Why is it over the recommended whne it is set on system managed size? i checked and made sure paging file on disk c was gone. Is this gonna make my computer faster and should i fix it? If i should fix it then how do i fix it???????

Answer 1

Yes it is best if your page file is on a separate drive or at least a separate partition! The best way to have it is too make a FAT16 partition of 2-4GB and set it on that as system managed! You cant make a FAT partition over 4gb so if you want more than 4gb you will have too make 2 partitions.



Also its better if you make the allocated unit size as big as possible!

Answer 2

One of the issues you have here is that you didn't actually change much of anything. You just moved the paging file from one part of the disk to another part of the same disk drive.



The performance gain in putting the paging/swap file on a separate disk drive is in the parallelism in having paging functions working on one drive while standard disk I/O is done on another drive. However, since they are still on the same physical drive, you haven't gained ANYTHING. In fact, depending on how your partitions and platters align, you might have hurt performance somewhat if the disk head has to move further to go back and forth between your partitions.



At any rate, the biggest performance hindrance in a swap file is fragmentation. I would check, first and foremost, if your new paging file is contiguous. Second, consider a second *physical* drive if you really want to do have your swap other than on your c: drive.

Answer 3

Well that depends on how much RAM you have. Paging file is like SWAP, if your system is running low on physical memory, the operating system will use a portion of hard disc space, the page file as if it were memory. If you have over 1GB or even 512MB, depending on what you do with PC, 2570MB Page File should be okay.

Answer 4

It is wrong to assume that bigger page file makes the computer faster. Beyond certain space, it is useless and may make the computer slower.

Page file being a hard disc space works slower than the RAM. If the data written on to the page file is large, it takes longer to access. It is customery to allot double your memory to the page file.

Now change the page file to 2 gb if your ram is 1 gb (as I presume).