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.
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Moving the paging file to the datapartition
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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.
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.
Page faults are what happens when an application requests memory that is in the pagefile. For a confusing explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault
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