Major System Performance Boost

Jiffyman

Jiffyman

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For those of you looking for a major performance boost you should try setting up multiple page files. Heres how you can try this for yourself, but first you should have a at least two partitions or an extra hard drive. After you have made sure that you have multiple partitions or an extra hard drive you are ready to set up your page filing system. First goto the control panel and select system. Once you are in the system prefrences. Then click on the advanced tab. After you have done that you should see a section called performace click the settings button. When you are in the performance options click the advanced tab. Then you should see a section that says virtual memory click the change button. After that a dialog box should pop up choose that partitions/disk drives that you want your pagefile on I recommend that you choose a custom size instead of a system managed page file the rest is up to you on how big the page file should be. This dramatically improved my system performance. If this helped you please tell me. If not still tell me I like to know when I'm of some help or not, and please remember I am open to suggestions.
 
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it really sounds like it'll work.. im willing to try it on my really old amd 1 ghz.. do u knoe if i'll see any improvements?

its an amd 1ghz
256 mb ram
60gb hdd
 
How exactly does this improve system performance? Generally, you want as little page file space as possible on your harddrive...not multiple ones. If you MOVE your page file to another harddrive (other than your OS dedicated one) can can experience better performance, but nothing significant. I'm jsut wondering how this will boost system performance...
 
You "Cannot" improve system performance by having your swap file write to seperate partitions on a single HD. You can however in theory improve performance using seperate HD's and have your swapfiles set up on each.

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Oh yea and as already said... There Is only a little performance increase by doing this.
 
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Check it Out for Yourself

Although I just tested this last night I have noticed significant system improvements, such as faster logon times and programs load faster. I havn't had enough time to see what else it improved, but it did speed things up alot. Although putting a page file on another partition may not be as good as putting it on a serperate IDE channel or hard drive it still majorly improved system performance. Like I said check it out for yourself.
 
Well I dont want this to turn itself into an argument ;) but I have tested it for myself a loooooong time ago. Also every guide I've found on the internet has stated not to put your swap file on seperate partitions but rather only onto seperate HD's. Your little guide is actualy the only one I've come acrossed that says to create seperate partitions. I'm almost certain actually that you'll slow down your machine by doing so. Also the swap file is used very little and the more ram a system has the less it is used. Some apps though still need it.

Think of it this way... Putting your swap file onto a seperate HD then your apps is to minimize head travel. If you put several swap files on one HD then there is going to be allot of head travel thus slowing things down.

Now I know what your thinking ;). Why has it not slowed down your system right? Well that is because of how much the swap file is actualy being used anyhow (very little).
 
The only explanation i can think of that might yield better results, is if your original swap file was huge, and was badly fragemnted.

by creating a new one and spreading it across partitions, you get a chance to recompile it all, and it's less fragmented.

but if you simply defrag your existing HDD or creat a new individual one on a seperate HDD, you will probably notice the same "boost" in performance, if not more.
 
Would you consider 700meg-1gig huge? I have 512 meg of ram as you can see on my signature.
 
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Fanman said:
If you have enough ram (1 gig atleast, I'd say...) go with no page file, unless that causes errors.
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I'm sorry but that's ridicously stupid if your performance minded.
 
in concern to the page file...On my laptop with 1gig of ram, I set the pagefile to the minimum and don't give it a range.

On my desktop, the page file is set to my documents drive WHICH IS ON IT'S OWN IDE BUS. Having 2 drives on the same cable and putting the page file on the second drive won't do much as the CPU will still have to take turns accessing the page file and the OS files. That is unless you're running SATA or SCSII

windows will also automaticly up the paging file if it needs it, BTW
 
the best boost to performance i can do for mine is to use high priority for programs and games. some games i get up to 20fps boost on high.

if it also works for anyone else, here is how you create a shortcut to any program or game by making a batch file and replacing it with the shortcut.

open notepad and type.

@echo off
cd /d "path name to executable here"
start /high place **.exe name here

save as .bat file and select all file types.
 
I just put it on another hard drive, I also set the minimum size to 500 meg and the max size to 1gig. just incase I wanna run a virtual machine.

Ha ha messed that sentence up.

I just put it on another hard drive, I also set the minimum size to 500 meg and the max size to 1000gig. just incase I wanna run a virtual machine.
 
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pagefilemonitor is a program that will tell you how much you use...after running lots of games and programs mine only used less that 400mb.
since having more is a waste i just keep mine a bit higher than the max i use and it works well.
i also use static keeping both min and max the same number. apparantly helps prevent fragmentation
 
I have a program like that. I don't use much of my page file unless I'm running virtual machine. Also when any of you guys tried this out did you notice a performance boost, or was I just trippin :eek:
 
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Jiffyman said:
I have a program like that. I don't use much of my page file unless I'm running virtual machine. Also when any of you guys tried this out did you notice a performance boost, or was I just trippin :eek:
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run some benchmarks before and after.
if your score improves, then to heck with what everyone else says.

at another forum i was mentioning how much more fps in games i get using high priority, they made me out like i was an idiot and how your not suppose to and how mouse lags..yadda yadda
works perfect on my pc with huge boost in performance so the heck with em all :)
 
LINUX/UNIX always create a SWAP-FILE on a seperate partition. The idea being that
the OS doesn't have to read the file-system on the PRIMARY-PARTITION, thus swap-time inproves.

Even if you had an infinite amout of memory, to give the appearance of a multi-tasking enviroment, WINDOWS still has to use the SWAP-DATA...
 
I do believe one of the biggest advantages to having the swap file on a seperate HD rather then a seperate partition is to improve speed due to less head travel. Also as I've said when moving your swapfile to a seperate HD your performance boost is little. So putting it onto another partition just makes no sense to me, sorry. If there even is a diff. running benchmarks I dont think you'll see it in real world use. I say if you have a second HD then go ahead and move your swapfile but if not then your just waisting time by partitioning your Hard drive.
 
Jiffyman said:
I just put it on another hard drive, I also set the minimum size to 500 meg and the max size to 1gig. just incase I wanna run a virtual machine.

Ha ha messed that sentence up.

I just put it on another hard drive, I also set the minimum size to 500 meg and the max size to 1000gig. just incase I wanna run a virtual machine.
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You're saying you actually have a terrabyte of space? On a laptop too. Darn...

You must have a pretty darn good computer.
 
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