Guest Julius Mong Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Hi, I have an eeepc and a fresh install of XP and have tried setting pagefile to go to E: (SDHC card) (My computer->properties->Advanced->Performance settings->Virtual memory Change->) I tried turning it off on C & D and enable it on E, however every time I reboot, a 2GB file gets created on C and none on E, why isn't XP listening to me? Please help, Julius
Guest Lil' Dave Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Pagefile keeps going to C:!?! "Julius Mong" <jxm96c@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uJvbVJaDJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > I have an eeepc and a fresh install of XP and have tried setting pagefile > to go to E: (SDHC card) (My computer->properties->Advanced->Performance > settings->Virtual memory Change->) I tried turning it off on C & D and > enable it on E, however every time I reboot, a 2GB file gets created on C > and none on E, why isn't XP listening to me? > > Please help, > > Julius > You can't put the swapfile on removable media. -- Dave
Guest Alec S. Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Pagefile keeps going to C:!?! Lil' Dave wrote (in news:uEDUUQaDJHA.5196@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl): > "Julius Mong" <jxm96c@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:uJvbVJaDJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > I have an eeepc and a fresh install of XP and have tried setting pagefile > > to go to E: (SDHC card) (My computer->properties->Advanced->Performance > > settings->Virtual memory Change->) I tried turning it off on C & D and > > enable it on E, however every time I reboot, a 2GB file gets created on C > > and none on E, why isn't XP listening to me? > > You can't put the swapfile on removable media. Lil’s Dave is correct. Removable media is unreliable because, well, it can be removed. What happens if you pull out the card and then Windows goes to read or write to the pagefile? It would probably die; the pagefile is important. Aside from that, you should not put the pagefile on a flash drive since they only have a limited number of write cycles before failing (most are rated for around 10,000 writes to any given cell before it fails). The pagefile is written to frequently even when you have sufficient memory, so your card would be dead in no time (well, at least some parts would be dead and it would have to be remap them until it can’t anymore). As for moving the pagefile, ideally you want to put it on another physical drive (not just another drive letter, but a separate physical drive). That would allow the best performance since it would be reading from a separate disk in parallel. You would then set the pagefile to that new drive letter, and make sure to set the one on C to disabled. However if you turn off the pagefile on the boot drive altogether (usually C), there are consequences and limitations. For example, you will unfortunately not be able to get memory dumps in the event of a BSOD. -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
Guest Doum Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Pagefile keeps going to C:!?! "Julius Mong" <jxm96c@hotmail.com> écrivait news:uJvbVJaDJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > Hi, > > I have an eeepc and a fresh install of XP and have tried setting > pagefile to go to E: (SDHC card) (My > computer->properties->Advanced->Performance settings->Virtual memory > Change->) I tried turning it off on C & D and enable it on E, however > every time I reboot, a 2GB file gets created on C and none on E, why > isn't XP listening to me? > > Please help, > > Julius > > <copied from wrong thread> Julius wrote : >Hi, thanks. But even if I turned off pagefile completely I'm still seeing the page file coming back on C:... any thoughts? Is my XP corrupt? You already receive answers about your SDHC card, but just curious, what is wrong with your pagefile? I don't think your XP is corrupt and it's not a good idea to completely turn off the pagefile. Doum
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Pagefile keeps going to C:!?! I have an Eee PC running XP. The key to using XP is to try and have a minimal install to preserve the SSD space. Generally, you can reduce the Pagefile size to a range of 384-512 Megabytes & it won't significantly impact performance. It depends on what the SSD size is. The original Eee has a 4.0 Gigabyte and newer Eee's have significantly larger SSD units. "Doum" <me@domain.net> wrote in message news:XnF9B0E641235909doumdomainnet@207.46.248.16... > "Julius Mong" <jxm96c@hotmail.com> écrivait > news:uJvbVJaDJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > >> Hi, >> >> I have an eeepc and a fresh install of XP and have tried setting >> pagefile to go to E: (SDHC card) (My >> computer->properties->Advanced->Performance settings->Virtual memory >> Change->) I tried turning it off on C & D and enable it on E, however >> every time I reboot, a 2GB file gets created on C and none on E, why >> isn't XP listening to me? >> >> Please help, >> >> Julius >> >> > > <copied from wrong thread> > > Julius wrote : > >>Hi, thanks. But even if I turned off pagefile completely I'm still > seeing the page file coming back on C:... any thoughts? Is my XP corrupt? > > You already receive answers about your SDHC card, but just curious, what > is wrong with your pagefile? I don't think your XP is corrupt and it's > not a good idea to completely turn off the pagefile. > > Doum
Guest John Wunderlich Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Pagefile keeps going to C:!?! "Julius Mong" <jxm96c@hotmail.com> wrote in news:uJvbVJaDJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > Hi, > > I have an eeepc and a fresh install of XP and have tried setting > pagefile to go to E: (SDHC card) (My > computer->properties->Advanced->Performance settings->Virtual > memory Change->) I tried turning it off on C & D and enable it on > E, however every time I reboot, a 2GB file gets created on C and > none on E, why isn't XP listening to me? > > Please help, > > Julius > > Besides the answers you've already gotten, realize that SDHC is a Flash Technology Memory. That means that writes occur *very* slowly compared to regular magnetic disks. Also, there is a limit to the number of times a Flash memory can be written. Usually that limit is in the tens or hundreds of thousand writes, but if you make a flash memory your Pagefile, you will could kill it in a day or two. -- John
Guest Alec S. Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 Re: Pagefile keeps going to C:!?! "John Wunderlich" <jwunderlich@lycos.com> wrote in message news:Xns9B0E809E6A876wunderpsdrscray@138.126.254.210... > Besides the answers you've already gotten, realize that SDHC is a Flash > Technology Memory. That means that writes occur *very* slowly compared > to regular magnetic disks. Also, there is a limit to the number of > times a Flash memory can be written. Usually that limit is in the tens > or hundreds of thousand writes, but if you make a flash memory your > Pagefile, you will could kill it in a day or two. Yes, I forgot to mention the write-speed (although with ReadyBoost compatible ones it’s not too bad, at least for a pagefile). As for limited life, I don’t know about a day or two. The drives usually remap the dead cells to spares. Plus if there’s enough memory, the pagefile won’t get hit as hard. It will probably take a little longer than a few days, but yes, it will be a waste of a flash drive. Which begs the question: what’s the deal with those 128GB SSDs? -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
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