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Paging File Size and Location
Now having gone through 4 different NLE systems and apps since ’97, with each one advising a different size and location of the page file, I would appreciate anyone’s thoughts on this who might be running P-Pro1.5 with two or more gigs of RAM (I’m running 3 on a SM X5DA8 with 2 3gb xeons). I believe one of this forum’s gurus suggested recently that someone (with 2 gigs of RAM) setup an initial size of 1.5 and 2 gigs max, and to NOT put it on the system drive.
Over the years I’ve tried all sorts of sizes and locations with a given sys/app and it never seemed to make any difference whatsoever. If there were slowdowns, crashing, whatever, reconfiguring the page file never had any effect. In fact, a computer whiz friend of mine suggested that with XP, just let it handle the page file settings and forget about it.
If there is anyone out there who really understands this page file thing, I’m betting we would all appreciate your letting us in on it in addition to what might be the optimum configuration for it. Thanks in advance.
Bill Buchanan
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Usually what I do when I intergrate a video system is on the System drive create two partitions, one NTFS for the system, one 4gig fat32 for paging, set min/max to what windows allows, and ignore it from then on,
one thing is I don’t want a paging file on dynamic video file/scratch/preview disks. -
Blast1,
You wouldn’t have an O/S on a dynamic drive anyway. The O/S will only operate on a Basic drive.
Why bother partitioning and adding FAT32? Keep everything NTFS and avoid complications.Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
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Thats dynamic as in very active, not as a drive type, the reason for a Fat32 partition is because if you have a NTSF paging partition, its possible for the system to try to index it even if indexing is turned off, where the system can’t index a fat32partition, indexing slows responce times.
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