paritition for paging file

[pentup]

I am about to reformat and I have a 2gig partition set aside on another drive that I plan to put a 512MB PF on. My question is this: What should I use for the cluster size? I don't plan on having anything else on there, just the paging file... I figured I should use something larger than the 'default' size in WinXP, but I'n not sure how high I should go.

i already discussed this a little bit in General Hardware, but it started to get off topic and people pointed me here for better info. how high of a cluster size should i use?

 

[Carnival Forces]

bump.

i'm really interested in this topic too, i can't believe that Ice Czar doesn't know it, i guess he just didn't see it.

 

[pentup]

eh, one final bump

 

[BillLeeLee]

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

From Ice Czar's Optimization guide up top. Read the part saying "Should the drive have a big cluster size?"

 

[Ice Czar]

Originally posted by Carnival Forces


i'm really interested in this topic too, i can't believe that Ice Czar doesn't know it, i guess he just didn't see it.

I do occasssionally sleep (and miss threads altogether)
in addition to the rcommendation to employ the default 4k cluster size, you might want to consider Multiple Pagefiles

or more RAM (as always)
or both