http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Moving the paging file to the datapartition en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:31:03 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/moving-the-page-file-to-the-datapartition#post-25361 Tue, 20 May 2008 05:03:46 +0000 bamsan 25361@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>If you have two harddisk, I'll suggest you to create a stripe set instead. Then you don't need to worry about 'which stuff should go into which part'</p> <p>However, for daily &#38; normal usage, I doubt that you'll notice any significant improvement </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/moving-the-page-file-to-the-datapartition#post-25358 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:35:16 +0000 The Geek 25358@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>What you should look at in either process explorer or task manager is the Page Faults and virtual memory size for your processes. If you have applications that generate a lot of page faults, then you'd probably get somewhat of a speed increase from switching the pagefile.</p> <p>Page faults are what happens when an application requests memory that is in the pagefile. For a confusing explanation: <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/moving-the-page-file-to-the-datapartition#post-25345 Tue, 20 May 2008 02:02:33 +0000 whs 25345@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi Geek, First thanks for the answer. Both the OS disk and the datapartition disk have the exact same specs. Adding more RAM won't help with 32bit - I already have 4GB's. Should I do it given those additional details? I have, of course, no idea about the paging behavior of my applications. But I usually do nothing extravagant. My current page file is 6877MB. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/moving-the-page-file-to-the-datapartition#post-25344 Tue, 20 May 2008 01:39:13 +0000 The Geek 25344@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Most of my tech buddies recommend doing this, as long as the other disk is comparable in speed. It can definitely increase speed if your applications do a lot of paging... although the best option is always to add more memory. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/moving-the-page-file-to-the-datapartition#post-25336 Tue, 20 May 2008 00:11:48 +0000 whs 25336@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I contemplate moving the paging file to my datapartition (which is a seperate physical internal 250GB disk). Right now I only use this partition for backing up with Ghost. Does anybody have experience with moving the paging file to a disk different than the OS disk and is there anything to be gained? Logic would tell you that it should speed up the system. But then reality may be different. </p>