Just curious not having read this whole discussion, but, if you're worried about the perf of your page file that tells me that you're seeing some serious paging which in turn tells me you need to buy more memory. Memory is cheap and it's WAY faster than disk will ever be...
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Speaking of page file If you are using iSCSI, I think it's a waste of time. If you are using sparse disks (those that expand as needed) then I think you will have shot yourself in the foot. For a fixed size drive, I always make the file contiguous on the root partition. I don't see why it could hurt to defrag it. It is supported. I must admit though, the thought had never crossed my mind. I should go play with that some. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Speaking of page file What effect (if any) does this have on a virtual drive or is it even supported/recomended???? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Speaking of page file I don't think any modern drive cares about the physical location of a file on the platters anymore. Now, Windows operates slightly better if the first few percent of a drive are logically empty (so it doesn't have to search for an open spot to put something). That's one of the prime benefits jkdefrag gives you with its "default" optimization criteria. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Speaking of page file Or on the system drive partition (if you have mutliple). The pagefile will be a lot closer to the inner tracks of the disc, where read/writes are faster because of the closer sector proximity. If you are moving it back to the system partition after it being somewhere else, be sure to use a defragger that can optimize its location back to the beginning of the disc. Or something like that. Someone a bit more tech can feel free to rip me a new one if I said that wrong. -- ME2 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Ames Matthew B <[email protected]> wrote: > Better stick it on a separate disk :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 29 January 2009 14:57 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Speaking of page file > > But not recommended. > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow, brilliant! 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