Creating paging files

[Echevarian]

ok ive read about mhy low virtual memory warnings come up and everything, and my question is this: i have 2 harddrives... a 20 gig, w/ win xp (and thats it) and an 80 gig w/ everything else on it... should my paging file be on the 20 or the 80? should i have one on both? i have 384 rdram, and my paging file was set at 576 mb i do believe, and i still got the warning... any suggestions??

 

[wolluf]

Complain to M$! (I've had stupid mesages like this, when task manager is showing 250MB of RAM free). I'm sure they'll be some smart answers, but as far as I'm concerned its a bug in XP.

For best performance, put a fixed size (max & min same)paging file on the 80 GB disk. Best done after disk defragged, so it all goes in one place.

 

[EspressoHelps]

Just to add on to wolluf, the general concensus is to set the size of the paging file to 2 1/2 times the amount of physical ram.