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I have a 30 GIG NTFS drive as my drive C:, and pagefile.sys is "in the
middle" when you look at it with Diskeeper 6. Back in the '98 days, Norton
Speed Disk could bump it to the "top" of the drive for optimal swap file
performance. Diskeeper can *defrag* the file on boot, but won't move it to
the top.

Looking for the tweakers out there!
Chris

My solution is to create a separate small partition just for the file,
be sure to leave some room if you intend to ever defrag it.

Quote:> I have a 30 GIG NTFS drive as my drive C:, and pagefile.sys is "in the
> middle" when you look at it with Diskeeper 6. Back in the '98 days,
Norton
> Speed Disk could bump it to the "top" of the drive for optimal swap
file
> performance. Diskeeper can *defrag* the file on boot, but won't move
it to
> the top.

> Looking for the tweakers out there!
> Chris

Norton Speed Disk can still do this for you.

Quote:> I have a 30 GIG NTFS drive as my drive C:, and pagefile.sys is "in the
> middle" when you look at it with Diskeeper 6. Back in the '98 days, Norton
> Speed Disk could bump it to the "top" of the drive for optimal swap file
> performance. Diskeeper can *defrag* the file on boot, but won't move it to
> the top.

> Looking for the tweakers out there!
> Chris

Diskeeper does not do this, since there has been no compelling
evidence that it actually improves performance on Win2K/NT volumes.
On a modern multi-platter disk, there are actually several "tops",
"middles" and "bottoms" of the disk.  

I know there are people who will disagree with this, and it's not my
intent to start a war here, but I've yet to see any evidence to
substantiate the theory of having the paging file in a specific
physical location.  As Dan mentioned, you can always just put the
paging file on its own dedicated partition.  (Still doesn't put the
paging file in any advantageous physical location, but it prevents it
from fragmenting if there are no other files on the volume.)

I hope this helps -

Vaughn McMillan
Executive Software

The disadvantage to the software vendor is if he/she don't get it right,
they can wipe out the whole disk drive, partition and file tables, as they
are bypassing the Win2k disk API's - which is risky, but many of those large
companies have special agreements with MS and they help to ensure this
doesn't happen.  The smaller software vendor don't have the budget or
capital to compete and as a result don't have options the big guys do.
Small note - I believe Norton (don't know about the others) splits the
pagefile into equal sizes and each are moved to the begining of a different
platter as my pagefile is always framented into exactly twice the number of
platters my drive has after defragmentation - seems too coincidental to me -
but then again, I could be lucky/unlucky depending on your outlook:-)

Quote:>I have a 30 GIG NTFS drive as my drive C:, and pagefile.sys is "in the
>middle" when you look at it with Diskeeper 6. Back in the '98 days, Norton
>Speed Disk could bump it to the "top" of the drive for optimal swap file
>performance. Diskeeper can *defrag* the file on boot, but won't move it to
>the top.

>Looking for the tweakers out there!

You could try creating a separate partition. But in general, it's
probably better in the middle of the disk than at one 'end'.

Thomas

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