Solved Paging File Size: Settings

[Manigue]

My computer has three (3) physical hard drives. Two (2) of them with one or two logical partitions and the smallest drive without any partition. ALL partitions are listed in the "Virtual Memory Paging File" window.

The question is this; should I set just one (1) partition as my page file, or should I set ALL listed partitions (Main and Logicals) to be "Managed By System"? or; set all but one to "No paging file" and set the smallest drive for the "Virtual Memory Paging File"?

Drive 1 is 750 Gb partitioned in 200Gb (Main)/200Gb (Logical)/350Gb (Logical).
Drive 2 is 500 Gb partitioned in 250 (Main)/250Gb (Logical).
Drive 3 is 160 Gb not partinioned (no Logical).

Have found lots of information and suggestions on setting "Paging File Size" but none mentions anything about the logical partitions. I currently have them ALL set to "System Managed Size" and it reports a file size of 141000Mb allocated. I guess this is about 10% of the total disk capacities????

Want to set to the most appropriate setting.

 

[Brink]

Hello Manigue,

This tutorial below should help answer your questions with more detail, but you may see better performance to have the page file stored on a separate physical drive than the C: drive and/or drive that your programs are stored on and set to "System Managed Size".

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/132201-virtual-memory-paging-file-change.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Manigue]

Thanks Brink. I finally found the appropriate answer to my questions in the tutorial. Enjoy reading this Forum. Beats reading a boring Vista manual.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Manique. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

Shawn