Page file set to 0 but task manager says 224....

[illogical06]

The title says it all, i set all my hdd's to 0 pagefile but yet it still exists somehow. I just got my other 512meg's of ram so i'm set to be completely hdd independent for running programs.

Whats goin on with this?

[flixotide]

I would run by support.microsoft.com, without elaborating much more, I can only say that you shouldn't be running without a pagefile at all (it is possible, but not the way you're trying it).

The pagefile as such is simply a means of creating a buffer for windows between disk and ram... the more ram you have, the higher you should actually make your pagefile.

A little studying at support.microsoft.com would help ya out :-)

Cheers, Flix

[diehrd]

What operating system, Sounds like XP..If it is you can not run without a page file..Set the file on a seperate clean fast rive or partition on a fast drive...

[threeme2189]

maybe its saying the 224 megs are the page file but they are actually part of the ram...
just a suggestion.

[flixotide]

The page file doesn't have the same performance inpact as in the good old Windows NT days... again, very basically put, its merely a buffer managing what goes in and out of the memory.

People all over the M$ community stil argue what is the best way to handle pagefiles... if you're a performance freak (*cough* isn't that why we are here?), set up two drives in a mirror (yes, raid 1, not striping/raid 0) on their own channels and dump the pagefile there. The pagefile and windows xp / server prefers running the pagefile off a separate ATA / SCSI channel on a mirrored volume.

I did a bit of experimenting with that at work once, two small 9 gb scsi discs for the pagefile alone, and then my OS on one disk.. sure, it gives a boost when handling a lot of applications (pagefile > 512 mb)... but again, one can always argue whether or not its really worth it.

If you REALLY wanna try out running with a ram drive, and having the pagefile displaced to it, I'll see if I can find the article.. I believe it can be done under xp as well.

Cheres, Flix

[Know Nuttin]

are you using Norton or Symantec Antivirus?