Ghost09

Thats a pretty good setup you got there. even thou with 2GB of ram i dought you'll ever come across a problem unless your doing a very intensive ram application. With that 200gb you should make a separate partion to host storage data maybe 80gb for the OS and the rest for storage thats sounds reasonable. and yea you should set the pagefile on the Raptor thats a major boost IF the OS ever wants to use it. make sure you do a offline defrag to assure its at a speedier side of the disk. i wish i had a Raptor lol

squall_leonhart

2.5gb actually.

jbruneau

For the most part, bring up the task manager, and watch the peak memory usage (this is the highest that it has ever reached in this instance of windows). Load up as many programs as you can that are of high memory use (msword, ff, convert a movie, play music, play bf2, etc). You pretty much now know that you can permanently set your paging file just above that peak usage and not have to ever worry about it.

If you happen to ever hit a program that uses more memory than you tested for, windows will expand the paging file for you anyways, even if you have it permanently set at 1 size.

The other thing to mention is that if you have more than 1 physical hard drive, you will get more performance having the page file on the 2nd+ hard drive!

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Cool Barn

Please elaborate. Do you think that 2.5GB is the optimal size for one or both people in that situation, or did you just mess the maths up

squall_leonhart

no, Ghost said that a pagefile for a system with 2gbs of ram would be 3gbs

it is actually 2.5gbs as 1.5x2 is 2.5

or 1.5x2000=2500
hmmm.. you can't actually do 1.5x2 as it doesn't work out properly. you need to set up a proper equation

errr becoz 1x2gb is 2gb, but if you add .5 it ads 500mbs

for example, i have 1024mbs of ram, and my pagefile becomes 1,536 which is 1.5x1024

1.5*2048 = 3072, when calculated but it doesn't work out properly. hmm...

512mbs is 768... 1024 is 1.5... so how the hell does 2.0gb of ram = 3gbs of pagefile... hmm.. man i've been calculating wrong...

*kicks spleak*
stupid msn bot didn't add it up right.

yes i messed the maths up, i was basing it off .5 equalling 500mbs instead of doing it as an actual 1.5 meaning that 1.5 *2=3

i was actually doing it ike this 1.5*1024/2048=2.5

Cool Barn

Lol, well seeing you're a beta tester for Windows Live Messenger perhaps you could email Microsoft and tell them about this bug

RingWraith

If you use 1 HD than allow Windows to control Page File.

With 2 hard drives you should place the OS on the first, and the Pagefile on the second.

Everyone can spare 2 GB for a page file, and it will never need to resize

I have 1 GB of RAM and my ACTUAL pagefile usage is rather small. (150-200)

The 'Allocated Page File Size' is not the same as actual Page File Usage.