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| Thread ID: 42442 | 2004-02-11 03:56:00 | Best partition size for Windows? | peejayw (5130) | Press F1 |
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| 214521 | 2004-02-13 19:40:00 | Putting Windows onto your 12 gig drive would be ideal - with everything else on one or more partitions on the other drive. Size for an XP partition has been discussed before and most savvy users agreed that around 10 gigs is good |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 214522 | 2004-02-13 22:48:00 | there are several different ideas on how to do this . it depends a bit on if your a beginner or pro . first of all work out which drive is the fastest . i suspect the 40 gig drive will be . as far as partition size for the OS goes, 3 gig is fine for a pro however for the rest of us i would sugest a bigger partition of around 10gig . this partion has the OS, drivers, startup programs,any programs requireing max speed off the harddrive and intergrated programs eg MS office, nortons . (a lot of intergrate programs won't work after the os has been removed hence its easy to have them with the os and they get removed with it during a format) you can get a slow down if the harddrive is having to access data from the front and middle of the drive,exspecially on startup . also if you put apps/files that rquire lots of HD speed eg restore/goback file on the 2nd or third partition the pc runs a bit slower than if its on the first (fastest) partition . >What Size should I set my paging file ? The general rule of thumb is ram *1 . 5 . ) give that bull a rest . the old ram X rule urban legand is dead . having the paging file on a seperate hardrive can be a good idea provided its fast enough . no point putting it on a slow drive . i generally don't like fixed swapfile sizes simply due to people running in to out of memory errors . |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 214523 | 2004-02-14 21:37:00 | tweak'e , Quote from WinXP Pro Help files on Virtual Memory. Exact topic 'Change the size of the virtual memory paging file.' For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your system. Usually, you should leave the paging file at its recommended size, although you might increase its size if you routinely use programs that require a lot of. |
PeebZ (454) | ||
| 214524 | 2004-02-14 23:11:00 | LOL......... MS for ya. would you follow that if you had 4gig of ram installed?? i doubt it very much. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 214525 | 2004-02-14 23:24:00 | > LOL......... MS for ya. > > would you follow that if you had 4gig of ram > installed?? i doubt it very much. Right, so whats your method for determining how big to make it? ;-) |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 214526 | 2004-02-15 00:44:00 | this has been thrashed out so often so heres the short ver...... simply take the max amount of memory you use, plus a bit for safty, minus the amount of ram you have = minimum swap file size. leave windows to resize it larger if need be. eg you use 600 meg memory and you have 256 ram then minimum swap file size should be 344. some third party progs like nortons optomiser do the exactly the same thing. if you use 2 gig of memory and have 4 gig of ram then there is no point in even having a swap file. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 214527 | 2004-02-15 01:54:00 | i would have C: 12gb Windows xp D: 12gb ghost image and backups E: 2gb virtual memory F: the rest for other |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 214528 | 2004-02-15 02:03:00 | > i would have > > C: 12gb Windows xp Nah, 10GB for Win XP and a generous handful of games/apps is plenty of room. If your going to install all your proggies on another partition you can get away with much less. eg 5-6GB. |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 214529 | 2004-02-15 02:06:00 | Oh, and thx for that info tweake. All I need do now is try and figure out how much memory this old girl is using all the time. ;-) The Windows Processes in Task Manager lists a "commit charge" and mem usage for each app but what it all means is a bit of a mystery to me. :D |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 214530 | 2004-02-15 02:11:00 | easiest way to check how much memory its useing is let windows adjust the swapfile size and take a look at the size it sets. use the most memory hungry programs you have and check what size it has changed to. then set minimum size slightly bigger than that. | tweak'e (174) | ||
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