Page File Management

[jonwolds]

Hi,

I have 3 physical harddisks containing:

1. - WINXP Pro
2. - My Documents
3. - Program Files

Should I create a page file on each drive or leave XP to manage this?

Thanks
Jon

 

[northmans]

XP has to manage these. So don't worry.

 

[BernardStewart]

by far the best way is to create a partition on one of the disks (max of 4Gb in size) and allocate the pagefile to this partition alone.
This will mean that the pagefile will not get defragmented and reduces the fragmentation on the other partitions/disks.
Overall it improves system performance.

 

[jonwolds]

That sounds interesting. Would you still have one page file for all three disks?

 

[BernardStewart]

yes win xp only uses one regardless of where it is

 

[BOURBAKI]

Best is to have one Page File as close to the beginning of your hard drive as possible. For a good discussion of the Page File ( location, optimal size, etc.) see:
The Windows XP Tweaking Companion at

http://www.tweakguides.com/XPTC.html