two page files???

[regan1985]

atm i have a raid setup and a 500g slave, is it worth taking the page file away from the master the raid and puting it on the slave or is it better to have one on both??

[t_ski]

I've never done it myself, but I've heard having one on each drive lets the OS use the one with less load.

[Jimmy 2004]

With page files the performance gain is minimal in most cases, your RAM is what makes the difference. I certainly wouldn't recommend taking a pagefile away from your RAID setup, I personally think you should spread the pagefile between both the drives. At the moment I have 2GB worth of virtual memory on each of my drives, that way Windows will use the one that is less busy. So if I'm loading a game from one, in theory it will use the other page file. Maybe slightly quicker load times, but nothing big.

[regan1985]

thats all i wanted to know really, i have setup one for the raid and one on my other drive so like your said in theory it should use which ever one will be faster to use!!!

also i need to get more ram,another 1gb!!

its that or a x2 165 im not sure!!!

[t_ski]

Unless you have a bunch of games/apps that can take advantage of the dual core I would recommend getting the extra 1GB first. Best bet would be two 1GB sticks instead of four 512MB sticks if you plan on overclocking.

[regan1985]

yeh i have looked into that but i have to keep my ram and its cheaper for me to get 2x512! plus on my dfi rdx200 its not overclocking aswell as my asrock cant get past 3.1stable! and the value ram wont go higher then 217mhz unlike b4 when it would get to 258! so prob going to get some more value ram!!

but then if i wait much longer the 165 will go up in price and they dont make it anymore!???

[Alec§taar]

I've never done it myself, but I've heard having one on each drive lets the OS use the one with less load.

That's interesting... I've seen pagefile.sys' being "striped" across multiple drives (meaning actual multiple pagefiles on diff. disks, not RAID'd!

(Just to clear up that last point, before it gets noted, because I am NOT expressing myself well today, imo @ least))...

BUT, I never knew this was how they were used, by the least "I/O load bearing" disk available...

AND, imo, that would be SMART to do it!

By some chance, do you have documentation of this?

I don't doubt you, but I never heard of the paging mechanism in Windows OS' being that "smart"!

Again, & imo, it WOULD be the smart way to do it, & DOABLE (disk loads for IO can be checked by the filesystem driver or disk driver I would wager, & if not, by a filtering driver "layered over them" would be my guess - you see those little apps that can tell you when a diskdrive is being used (little trayicon light type stuff) & iirc, they use a filtering driver).

Thanks!

APK

[t_ski]

No, I don't have and data to back it up, as I can't remember where I heard it from. If I remember I'll post it.