HDD2 pagefile

[Solaris17]

ok i heard that having the page file on the second hdd will make things a little faster cause the head can consintrate on one thing and the other head on the 2nd drive consintrated on the page file but i have a question should i put my page file on my other hdd? i put all unneccisarry programs...flash...GAMES.....burning utils etc......so if i were to play like far cry and my page file was on my second hdd instead od C: whould it slow my games down?.....i mean i think it kinda works in reverse now i have a gig of ram but if a game ever needed to touch the page file it would load it off of C: but if it did with it on my other drive it would need to move the head ...most of my games run off the hdd so i was just woundering if moving my page file would benifit/not benifit me here....and if it will...how much should i put their(how big should i make my new page file) and should i leave any on the old drive?


thnx :)

[Poisonsnak]

I don't think it's a good idea to have a bit of page file on each drive because if you had to go from the end of one to the start of the other that could have a lot of latency.

I think uwackme from dfi-street recommends building a 5GB or so FAT32 partition at the start of your hard drive and putting the page file on that. Also since the page file is made up of 4kB pages it's a good idea to set the cluster size to 4096 (4k). Then you put a fixed size page file of about 2x the size of your RAM (rule of thumb I think).

I usually have my page file and windows partition on one physical drive and everything else on my other drive. This kind of tweak is really to wring the last drops out of your machine though it's a lot of work for what is probably an unnoticeable performance gain.