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When creating a partition for the paging file or virtual memory, should you remove the paging file from the OS partition? When doing so a message pops up saying that the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs. What suggestions can you guys give me?
Thanks!
by thechas
If you are concerned, you can set a small fixed size page file on the OS partition, and have your primary page file on the separate drive.
There is a very good article on Virtual Memory (page file) at www.aumha.org
There are 2 versions, 1 for Windows 9X, and 1 for XP/W2K.
Personally, I ignored the warning on my XP box, and use a separate drive exclusively.
I have not had any problems.
Chas
by ewgny
You will gain the most performance if you use a separate disk (exclusively) for the page file like Chas is doing. This way the R/W of the paging file won?t interfere with the R/W
of the OS/Data. The performance gained may be significant for a Server, or for a workstation running a program such as photoshop
The one advantage of putting the paging file on a separate partition,
would be that the paging file would not get fragmented into your OS/Data. Moving it to a separate partition can also free up space on the C: drive as well. As far as the Debugging information file is concerned, are you planning on reading any stop error Dump files?? Do you know of anyone that ever could read one?? If your answer is no, don?t worry about it. This link will give you the skinny on dump files, and how to turn off dump files
http://tinyurl.com/uba5
by adrianc
You should have the paging file on a seperate partition to the system partition. example:
C:\ 0
D:\ 288 - 576
Hope this helps
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