Windows 2K & XP Pagefile Tweak

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 9:37 am

Originally posted by dannjr
Its all mnosteeles fault

OK I'll take the blame for this one.

dannjr · Post by **dannjr** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:17 am

Im sorry I guess I put everyone to sleep

Happy New year

Mytflyguy · Post by **Mytflyguy** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:14 pm

Originally posted by UOD
Now we're talking buddy!!!!

Yes! I would say, if you have the extra cash, to pick up a extra HDD...and you don't need the biggest...even a used 10gig would suffice, but a good 20gig @7200rpm would kick ass. Put the swap file on it and away you go!!!!!

I currently have 2 80 gig WD SE 8MB Cache drives , one for the OS and one for Data only ....

1024 Mb Physical Ram

I currently have my Pagefile set to 1024 on this drive , would it be helpeful to make a seperate partition for the swap file , and use the conservative tweak ? Or is it just as effective as using my second hard drive with my data ?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:52 pm

Put your pagefile on the HD with your data and make it 1024 min & max. The conservative swap file tweak is bogus in XP.

illestdynasty · Post by **illestdynasty** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:14 pm

A lot of new tweaks have been discovered since I last been thru the SG forums. I was using the 512/1536 PF settings, but since then I tried the 512/512 setting recommend by steele. It seems that a setting of 768/768 followed by a PF defrag by PerfectDisk 6.0 seems to make things run smoothest on all of my rigs.

srbarnes4ever · Post by **srbarnes4ever** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:49 pm

[quote]Originally posted by UOD
There is really 3 tweaks going on here.

The first tweak would apply to all users...that is the conservative swap file usage tweak....enabling you to use all your physical ram before you use the swap file. Everyone should use this....hell, you paid for that ram, it's the fastest in relation to the swap file so why not use it?

Does the conservative swap file tweak above apply to Win XP? I'd like to confirm if I have mine set as such so please educate me a tad bit further. Thanks in advance.

j79zlr · Post by **j79zlr** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 12:19 am

OK, I seen Conservative Swap File tweak and XP, that tweak is absolutely invalid. Changing anything is sys.ini is pointless since XP disregards that file.

As far as page file size, you should never set the minimum value to anything less than the amount of RAM installed. The page file is not the same thing as virtual memory was in 9x. It can operate as virtual memory, but will not do so until all physical memory is used. You need the same size PF as RAM since XP will page the contents of RAM to disk. This is not virtual memory but paging. The contents are in a sense mirrored. This is used so physical RAM can be freed more easily.