re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Sunday, June 15, 2003 at 9:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Magician
(63 messages posted)
Couple of things I think I should mention.
Moving your swap file to a different PHYSICAL drive is an excellent idea, moving
to a LOGICAL drive (on the same physical disk) is not so good. It will just make
the system run slower since it cannot access the pagefile in parallel to reading
the executable etc, it needs instead to halt one read/write operation, scan the disk
to the pagefile, write the data to the pagefile, halt that operation and scan the
disk back to the original read/write operation. On physically separate disks those
two tasks can be carried out nearly in parallel and the performance benefit on a
system that uses its pagefile a lot is noticable.
Which carries me onto the next point, do you need to set your pagefile to 1.5x your
RAM? No, not if you have more the 512MB, as you do. Like Ricer46 says, its common
sense. the pagefile is used as an overflow when the RAM is full and unless you are
doing some seriously memory intensive stuff (DVD editting maybe?) you will have a
hard time overflowing 768MB
Do the maths quickly, if I have 64MB for RAM then a 96MB pagefile makes sense, if
I have 512MB or RAM then a 768MB pagefile is silly. I personally have 1gig of RAM
and I DO NOT need a 1.5gig pagefile! XP uses maybe 140MB (or 200MB if you have all
your services running - see the excellent Black Viper site Ricer46 pointed you too),
that leaves around 600MB of RAM for XP to use, it doesn't need 768MB of pagefile
too. I would recommend 100MB pagefile (some games complain if they can't see a pagefile,
even if that dont need it).
I'm not trying to sound patronizing (apologies if I do), I'm just trying tto give
you a solid reply.
Just have fun with it :-)
On Sunday, June 15, 2003 at 7:15 am, Miss X wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
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>I have few questions considering the swap file size. I'm soon to have 768 ram, and
>i will need to change the paging file size then. I'd need to know whether i can
change
>the file place to another drive, and most off all.. off the ntfs to fat32 drive?
>Or, should i reformat the fat32 drive to be ntfs first? Also, do i really need to
>have it as 1.5 times bigger the ram is, or can i make it smaller? My harddrive (partitied
>into 4 drives) is 30 gb 5400rpm, motherboard single processor tyan trinity kt-a,
>can i even move the paging file to another drive without ending up crashing? Help
>would be very much needed and apprecciated:=)
>Something also for who have disabled the indexing service in xp through admin tools...
>check into add/remove programs, windows part, remove it off your system as well,
>if it is installed. My common sense says if isn't there, it won't run there. (?
>Talking about windows, everything impossible is possible?)
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