[dba-Tech] wXP virtual memory question

I don't have XP here, so comments are from memory.  Comments inline.

Bobby

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Subject: [dba-Tech] wXP virtual memory question


Actually, three related questions:

1. The interface is quite quite confusing (or alternatively, my senior 
moments are becoming more frequent). I want to move the Windows 
pagefile.sys from drive e: to drive f:. It's not readily apparent how to 
do this.

I think that you set the pagefile size on E: to 0 and set it to whatever you
want on F:

2. I have heard or read that the pagefile.sys setting should be twice 
the RAM available. Is this just old-folks' tales or is there sense 
behind this alleged maxim?

For lower amounts of RAM (<=512MB), I go with twice the amount of RAM.
Anything over 512MB, I usually set the pagefile size to 1.5 times RAM.

3. I just noticed another file 260MB large called hiberfil.sys. What is 
this? Can I kill it? Can I move it?

This is what the system uses when your PC hibernates.  I do not know if you
can kill it or not.