One pagefile or two?

[juneau]

I was just wondering how many pagefiles you BF2 users have. Reason being is that i once had two. Now with my HDD dying i can only have one and the performance drop while loading levels is massive.

[paceman]

I only have 1 logical drive. Hence I only have 1 page file. Just make sure to make it a fixed size and not let windows manage it.



I actually have 4 drives in a RAID 10 configuration.

[juneau]

Yea i always use a fixed size. Really didn't think only having one pagefile would make so much of a difference though.

[omfg karl marx]

1 Pagefile on my non-Windows SATA disk.

[beanlover]

I have NO pagefile whatsoever. If you have enough RAM you should turn off your pagefile IMHO. You can't do this in Win2k but you can in XP.

B

[omfg karl marx]

I have NO pagefile whatsoever. If you have enough RAM you should turn off your pagefile IMHO. You can't do this in Win2k but you can in XP.

B

Bad idea. Windows XP needs a pagefile to operate correctly and efficiently. The reason is that when programs ask for an allocation of Virtual memory space, they may ask for a great deal more than they ever actually bring into use — the total may easily run to hundreds of megabytes. These addresses have to be assigned to somewhere by the system. If there is a page file available, the system can assign them to it — if there is not, they have to be assigned to RAM, locking it out from any actual use.

Besides, what's the worst a pagefile can do? Use up a bit of hard drive space? That's hardly an argument especially since hard drive space is retailing for around 50? a gig now.

[Rovey Wade]

what's a pagefile? i feel as if i should know... but don't.

[juneau]

In storage, a pagefile is a reserved portion of a hard disk that is used as an extension of random access memory (RAM) for data in RAM that hasn't been used recently. A pagefile can be read from the hard disk as one contiguous chunk of data and thus faster than re-reading data from many different original locations.

Edit:

I'm with Karl Marx too. Even if you have 4gb of RAM you should never remove your pagefile/pagefiles.

[lucid]

I have 1GB of ram and didn't have a pagefile for a while. I have one now but I really don't know if it makes much of a difference.

I started using page files again after I setup a sata raid.

[Rovey Wade]

so it's something you have to set up i assume?

[beanlover]

Q: What do RAM and an orgasm have in common?

A: Both are better when you don't have to fake them.

In my experience with pagefiles I've seen the best performance from not having one at all. I've monitored my RAM usage without one and I rarely exceed 200mb usage under XP. Only when I have a bunch of images open in GIMP do I see it jump up close to/over 300mb used.

YMMV

[Tire{CLR}]

Q: What do RAM and an orgasm have in common?

A: Both are better when you don't have to fake them.

In my experience with pagefiles I've seen the best performance from not having one at all. I've monitored my RAM usage without one and I rarely exceed 200mb usage under XP. Only when I have a bunch of images open in GIMP do I see it jump up close to/over 300mb used.

YMMV

lol

How do I turn it off. It's been in my c: drive for years and I can't figure out how to get rid of it...

[paceman]

For XP *

Right Click My Computer/Properties
Click on Advanced
Click on Performance/Settings
Click Advanced
Click Virtual Memory/Change
Select No Paging File
Click Okay

You will need to reboot.


* I take no responsibility if you have any problems from not having a paging file. This is just how to do it and is not an indorsement to do it.

[johnnie]

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[beanlover]

I have 768MB RAM in my XP laptop...128 of that is shared to video so I really only have 640mb system RAM.

I would only suggest turning off the paging file if you have at least as much RAM as I have. I would also only recommend it for XP or higher OSes (no idea about Linux).

Just wanted to clarify.