Page File question

[cauzomb]

Regarding your page file, to increase performance, try using another HD on a different I/O channel. If your system can access both channels simultaniously, the Input/output and access times can be reduced between paging read/writes and accessing application and system data from the other drive. Other than that, unless you have specific application needs for a larger scratch disc, or other custom memory settings, you can allow windows to manage the page file.

[syxguns]

Basically a page file is your virtual memory. Normally Windows will create a page file that is approximately half of the size of your memory installed. What is comes down to is if you are in need of that much virtual memory. If you are not running programs that exhaust your actual memory and have at least 2 gigs of RAM installed, then you are probably not even using a portion of the page file.

Having a page file on a separate disk is a good thing to help speed up performance of the machine. Many people use multiple paging files on different HDD's on their systems. Here is a link that will explain it in greater detail: http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm