Suggestions on Pagefile settings

[turkeybaggins]

hey all my first post! yay.

ive upgraded and added another 2 x 512mb sticks of ram to my current spec (taking me to 4 x 512mb PC3200 400Mhz) i use two physical hard drives and have currently set my pagefile on D drive (where C drive holds my XP install and BF2 install etc....) i wanted to know what kinda settings i should have my pagefile set on. i hear conflicting info on what i should have, 200 mb in both fields, or is it 512 mb initial and 2048 mb max? i dunno so i thought i would post the question here!

other info is that my drives are SATA 160gb each also there is a recovery partition (E drive) on one drive but i cannot figure out which one it is but i really have the feeling its C drive. all drives have been recently defragged.

[Darksniper75]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

hey all my first post! yay.

ive upgraded and added another 2 x 512mb sticks of ram to my current spec (taking me to 4 x 512mb PC3200 400Mhz) i use two physical hard drives and have currently set my pagefile on D drive (where C drive holds my XP install and BF2 install etc....) i wanted to know what kinda settings i should have my pagefile set on. i hear conflicting info on what i should have, 200 mb in both fields, or is it 512 mb initial and 2048 mb max? i dunno so i thought i would post the question here!

other info is that my drives are SATA 160gb each also there is a recovery partition (E drive) on one drive but i cannot figure out which one it is but i really have the feeling its C drive. all drives have been recently defragged.

Answered your question in the other thread. Please close this mods.

Cheers

[BoloMarkXXX]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

Read this http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks5.htm

[CaptJordus]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

There is no purpose in your page file being any larger than your actual physical RAM amount.

[Blak_Phoenix]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

I heard that it sould be 1.5 times your RAM.

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

wut he said.

[CaptJordus]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

I heard that it sould be 1.5 times your RAM.

After doing some looking around. It appears my information is outdated (95,98 etc)

The page file *supposedly* should be set to around 2.5 times the size of the Physical RAM and the min/max sizes should be set the same so the page file never fragments.

[Blak_Phoenix]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

Yeally, interesting, i never thought it would be 2.5 times.. thats massive, so what if you have 2Gigs or RAm, your page file should be 5123 MB?? Wow.. ok :) lol.

[CaptJordus]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

I would think that 1.5-2 times would be enough.

I think they figure in extra buffer for those who user-switch, to which they accredit needing another 50% RAM size for each user logged on.

[Blak_Phoenix]

Re: Suggestions on Pagefile settings

Yea, well i use fast user switch ing onmy machine, so i should prob extend the pagefile a bit.. lol. :laugh: