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More info?)
Tim and others...
Thank you for your replies.
I have plenty of disk space, so that's not a consideration.
I run Photoshop, MS Office, Quicken and a few other apps for my home/office.
Photoshop has its own swapfile which I have on a separate partition on a
second drive.
To keep things simple, I'll keep the page file on just my C: drive.
John
"Tim" <Tim@NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:ch8vnc$hec$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> John, the recommended value is listed at the bottom of the Virtual Memory
> form. It is 1.5x physical memory + 2MB.
>
> However, with 2GB RAM, depending on what you are doing, having a pagefile
> this size can be just a waste of space. I have sought clarification on
> what the optimal pagefile size with larger memory configs but it seems to
> depened mostly on what you use the system for. ON small memory systems,
> the 1.5x rule stands - if it is smaller, then you run the risk of Out of
> Memory errors, if the page file is much larger then to be able to use it,
> memory has to be grossly oversubscribed and performance will be suffering
> very badly already.
>
> If you install SP2 you will also notice that there is a new option of No
> Paging File.
>
> If you can afford the disc space then use the recommended settings. If you
> wish to experiment with the new No Paging File option then OK, but be
> aware that you may start to see Out of Memory errors when the full 2GB is
> in use. If you need to economise for disk space reasons then you can trim
> the size down somewhat (EG 1GB), however don't do this if you are running
> server systems such as multi-user databases, email servers, and so on as
> you may strike major performance issues if the memory allocations in these
> systems is not under the total VM size.
>
> For best VM performance, the page files can be split across multiple
> drives and controllers. However to do this effectively one needs to
> understand first the IO usage patterns of the *disc drives* concerned. If
> you had say 2 IDE disc drives on master and slave, then there is
> absolutely no point in splitting the page file (there can be no overlapped
> IO with IDE or SATA, there can be with SATA RAID, and it is normal for
> SCSI). It is completely pointless splitting a pagefile across partitions
> on the same drive (unless you are out of disc space).
>
> Lastly, the pagefile should be large enough for a memory dump should your
> system be or become unstable. Without an adequate sized page file, you
> will not be able to have a full PM dump or do a PM analysis. (most people
> don't know what to do with one anyway, so this is rather moot).
>
> - Tim
>
>
> "John Blaustein" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:-KydnXqXEN0zZ6rcRVn-gA@lmi.net...
>> Forgot to add...
>>
>> Windows XP Home w/SP2.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>> System:
>>>
>>> P4P800-E Deluxe
>>> P4 3.0C
>>> 2GB RAM
>>> C: WD 120 GB SATA HD
>>> D: WD 120 GB EIDE HD -- D: and E: partitions
>>
>>
>
>
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