[分享]TweakHound’s Super XP Tweaking Guide
TweakHound’s Super XP Tweaking Guide
The Page File
There is a lot of
bad advice and misunderstanding on the web of how virtual memory
(and thus the page file) works in XP. For those interested in
further reading check out
Understanding Virtual Memory ,
Virtual Memory in Windows XP, and
How to configure paging files for optimization and recovery in
Windows XP. The
following recommendations are based on research, information
gathered around the web, and personal experience dealing in a
variety of configurations.
1. The average user is best served by
LEAVING THE PAGE FILE ALONE. XP does an excellent job of managing
the page file settings for most people.
2.
For 99.999% of the configurations
on the planet you need a page file. XP itself wants one and a number
of programs out there do too.
(Please don¡¯t email me to
argue this, I won¡¯t respond. Find a forum to argue about it.)
3.
The recommendations below are not
designed to give you the highest scores on a synthetic benchmark but
to give you the best overall performance for your system (including
stability). The size of hard drives today are huge and making the
page file a little larger than it “needs” to be hurts nothing and
you¡¯re covered if you¡¯re ever doing something that requires more.
More good links:
RAM, Virtual Memory, Pagefile and all that stuff (short version at
MS)
RAM, Virtual Memory, PageFile and all that stuff (full article)
Comparison of 32-bit and 64-bit memory architecture for 64-bit
editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
Action:
Adjust
Page File
Purpose:
Performance. Stability.
More Info - see the links above
To adjust the
page file:
Click on the
Advanced tab > check both boxes that say “Programs” Under
the Virtual memory section you should make adjustments here
if your system can handle it. Click Change here. “Super
geeks” will either:
A:
Remove the page file from the drive the OS is on and make a separate
partition at the beginning of a separate disk from the OS just for
this (preferably on a different chain from that disk also). Use the
same settings for the page file that XP had on the other drive (ram
x 1.5 min, ram x 3 max). If you have several disks you can spread
the page file out over them also. For those who wish to spread the
page files out across multiple drives. XP will use the drive(s) that
are least busy. Ensure that you set the page files on these drives
large enough so that XP has enough room to do whatever it wants in
each page file. This means setting each page file slightly larger
than the amount of RAM installed. I do not like this option and use
the next option instead.
***Microsoft and
every expert I¡¯ve read state that you should leave at least a small
page file on the OS drive.
B.
Keep the page file that is on the same partition that the OS is on
and put a second page file on a separate partition at the beginning
of a separate disk from the OS (preferably on a different chain from
that disk also). I have mine set to: Page file on OS drive = memory
x 1.5. Page file on separate partition/separate drive = memory x
1.5. I also format the page file using FAT32 rather than NTFS
because on this small volume FAT32 is faster (on smaller volumes).
Which Is Faster - FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS?
Below is an example of the setup in one of
my machines.
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