A note in this article indicated that it would be difficult to determine why one would place a pagefile on a mirror set. It is not difficult at all in a server environment.
The simple answer is for fault tolerance. On a desktop PC, if you have a dedicated disk to a page file, and that disk dies while the computer is in use, the computer becomes unusable.
In a server environment, you don't want to lose your page file. You don't want to place your page file on RAID 5 due to the write penalty. A disk that is mirrored at the hardware level does not inccur this penalty, or at least to the same extent. If there is a performance tradeoff, the offsetting benefit is fault tolerance in the mirrored disk set.
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I would like to know how much of the information
in this article about the Windows XP pagefile applies to Windows 2000 Pro?
in this article about the Windows XP pagefile applies to Windows 2000 Pro?
Almost all of the information would be relevant minus the graphics. Diskeeper 7's screens do not quite appear as stylized but are functionally equivalent. I am not totally in tune with the use of performance variables to use but I would figure thepage file function has been essentially the same as day one.
You're right Wiz2K doesn't look quite the same as the screenshots in the article on XP but the functionality seems to be the same.
My pagefile was in 4 fragments and now lives happily in one piece on my second big data drive in its own partition.
My pagefile was in 4 fragments and now lives happily in one piece on my second big data drive in its own partition.
... nowhere = somewhere else!
If you cannot put it somewhere else, delete it, then defrag the disk (can take as many as 10 times before you have a big enough space to put it back). Windows will run without a swap file (but it's better not to...), but for the purposes of having a contiguous swap file, delete it (click the No Paging file radio button, then click Set - no reboot required), run Defrag as many times as necessary, then reset the Max and Min how you like - I always have a Static (Max = Min) swap file, so there is no chance of fragmentation in the future - don't forget to reset the No Paging File radio button and click on Set).
Another (good) thing about doing it this way, is that you give more disk space to Defrag to do its work (so it runs a bit faster), so this is another reason to delete the swap file before defragging a disk.
If you cannot put it somewhere else, delete it, then defrag the disk (can take as many as 10 times before you have a big enough space to put it back). Windows will run without a swap file (but it's better not to...), but for the purposes of having a contiguous swap file, delete it (click the No Paging file radio button, then click Set - no reboot required), run Defrag as many times as necessary, then reset the Max and Min how you like - I always have a Static (Max = Min) swap file, so there is no chance of fragmentation in the future - don't forget to reset the No Paging File radio button and click on Set).
Another (good) thing about doing it this way, is that you give more disk space to Defrag to do its work (so it runs a bit faster), so this is another reason to delete the swap file before defragging a disk.
well if you use anouther drive it says to large pagefile use smaler you cant do this though if you do you cant go back online also you cant open up my computer to change it now what do you do
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