2009-09-06, 09:51 PM
Darklai Wrote:you're the only other person I've ever heard of recommending the change on virtual memory. It's a clear sign of a pro :'D.
Changing your pagefile isnt necessarily a good thing, as XTOTHEL mentioned. Most of the time, you should just let windows handle it. Tho, I dedicate certain spaces on my drives to paging.
Having multi-drive paging works better than single drive paging, and having a continuous block allocated for paging is better than multi-blocks, which usually happen when you let windows allocate your pagefile. Thus, if you have a single drive, there's only 2 benefits in setting maximum paging: continuous block and lack of complaints of "your <whatever> drive is running low on space". However, if you're running multiple partition, always put your paging on the first partition, otherwise, it will likely to slow down your system.
Paging overhead comes from pagefaults, which causes swapping of data on/off RAM. Ideally, you don't want this to happen. Increasing the size of the pagefile will not decrease this, thus unlikely to give you any speed gains. Even multi-drive paging wont help with this. The only solution is to get more RAM to reduce your pagefault hits. Multi-drives paging does help with situations where you're loading apps from one HDD and cache from another concurrently.
So as XTOTHEL said, modifying your pagefile brings little comforts in most situations and it is too technical for the average user to comprehend.