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Plus, if you let Windows manage your page file and leave it on your sytem drive, then that page file is prone to becoming fragmented and risk a performance hit on your system, although I’m again unsure just how obvious that is having never taken that approach myself.
Ideally, the min and max size of the pagefile should be identical…. that ensures that the pagefile is always in a single contiguous location.
The size of the file? General wisdom is that it should be 1.5 times the size of your RAM. In cases of very little RAM (like i think 256mb and below) you’d need to increase this to 2 to 2.5 times.
I have four drives in my system and configure the first partition of #1 for the Windows O/S installation and other select programs, the first partition of #2 is exclusively for the page file, and the first partition of #3 is for the PS scratch disk. My slowest drive is #4 and is used for miscellaneous data, backup, and installation files.
Daryl… please don’t forget that the (other) drive on the same IDE channel as #4 will only run as fast as #4. (Unless i’m misssing something here?)
Cheers…
JJ