Re: influencing the order in which page and swap files are used

From: Daryl Jones (jones.computer.srv_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 31 Dec 2003 00:18:58 -0800

helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote in message news:<bsssnj$jck$2@online.de>...
> I have page and swap files on the system disk and on a different disk.
> I want to have just "minimal" files on the system disk for the rare
> cases when it is the only disk connected, and mainly use the other
> files. I might move the secondary page and swap files to a solid-state
> disk (should improve performance!) and in that case it would make even
> more sense to use these exclusively and the ones on the system disk only
> if the others aren't available.
>
> Is there a way to influence which page and swap files are used?

Dear Phillip Helbig:

Pagefile useage is influenced by reducing one page file to be small
and the others to be very big in comparison. However, your System
processes will be mapped to the small page file (if it's on the system
disk) and could become full causing performance to be reduced and
could even cause the system to fail. What I have found to be best
performance boost is adding more Core Memory (RAM) especially if the
swap file is being used, then increasing WSextent and Pagfilquota for
the processes. Now if you have large amount of paging from the page
file, then check how the process is accessing it's memory.

Best of Luck,
Daryl Jones

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