Comments on: Speed Up Windows By Optimizing Your Page File

By: Human Tech

Human Tech — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:39:54 +0000

You will need a Pagefile on the computer for it work.

The RAM is wiped out when power goes off. The pagefile is written to the disk drive and can later be accessed when power is back. Then we can fix it, the problem.

By: Cherette

Cherette — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:49:03 +0000

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By: Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:04:00 +0000

There is a great deal of confusion surrounding the pagefile. Several things to keep in mind.
1. Disabling the pagefile will NOT disable virtual memory, neither will it eliminate paging. It may actually increase it. Program code will continue to be paged in and out as needed and this will never touch the pagefile. The pagefile is used to contain rarely used data to free memory for often accesed data.

2. Moving the pagefile to a non-system partion is a bad idea unless it is on a separate drive. This will lead to increased seek times and impaired performance.

3. By default XP uses what is known as a semi-fixed pagefile. The minimum size should be set so that it will meet normal needs. The maximum size should be set high to allow for growth in unusual conditions. For practical purposes you have a fixed pagefile that does not resize with no fragmentation. But the pagefile can still grow as needed in those rare times of high memory usage. Only during these times will resizing take place. A reboot will restore the pagefile to the lower limit. In any event this resizing will not done very often.

Setting the upper and lower sizes the same will waste a great deal of disk space and provide virtually no benefits.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

By: Improve performance by tweaking your hardware | Tips

Improve performance by tweaking your hardware | Tips — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:35:34 +0000

[...] will either point to a need to defragment the hard drive or add more memory. If this file is the Pagefile.sys file, then it is a strong probability that more memory is needed. The need for programs to access [...]