2 gigs of ram and pagefile size

[psychomage343]

I'm wondering what would be the best setup for games with the pagefile. No page file or a small one or whatnot. My drive set up is a raid 0 with 3 partitions, 10 gig for os, 100gig for apps, and 290gig for storage. I'm wondering how to best set up the pagefile. any ideas are welcome

[EllisD]

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I usually just put my pagefile on a seperate physical drive (SATA01 = OS, IDE01 = Pagefile), about the same size as my ram (i have 1gig ram, so i have a 1 gig pagefile) but since you have raided drives, i dont think you will take much of a performance hit wherever you decide to place it. Not too sure on what size you should use though.

[ReelFiles]

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After tons of various setups I barely notice any differece performance wise. Use logic; Place the pagefile in the beginning of the fastest hard drive, use a fixed size ie: same min and max. 4096Kb is maximum size for XP, I set my min and max for that.

[calvintang]

i think the page file is 1.5 your ram

[ReelFiles]

That is correct, according to Microsoft.

[THunDA]

After tons of various setups I barely notice any differece performance wise. Use logic; Place the pagefile in the beginning of the fastest hard drive, use a fixed size ie: same min and max. .

Same here.. I went through alot of testing a while back and to be honest Ive never noticed a difference in performance in where I placed the page file..

 

I do however set the min and max the same.