Paging file question

lesrae · 02-03-07, 03:06 AM

A useful utility for defragging page files, registry files etc is pagedfrg, formerly from sysinternals - now microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

It's a lightweight little program, that runs stand alone - you don't install it. When you run it you see the current level of fragmentation and you can select to defrag next boot/every boot/don't defrag. It runs during the boot sequence to defrag.

I use it on every machine I work on, in conjunction with contig (from the same author) which is a lightweight dos-style defrag tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Contig.mspx

Iceman · 02-04-07, 12:09 AM

Let your OS determnine this as "Ram" in a windows machine gets tied up and not released until you do a "Hard" reboot...you can get into all kinds of trouble messing with it...unless your comfortable with trouble

....or running Linux/Unix or a Mac which handle memory better...As was pointed out above...different programs can hang onto ram and you find your self in a pickle.

If you need more ram...you need more ram...or a better computer.

02-03-07, 03:06 AM	#1
lesrae Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, UK. Posts: 932 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	A useful utility for defragging page files, registry files etc is pagedfrg, formerly from sysinternals - now microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx It's a lightweight little program, that runs stand alone - you don't install it. When you run it you see the current level of fragmentation and you can select to defrag next boot/every boot/don't defrag. It runs during the boot sequence to defrag. I use it on every machine I work on, in conjunction with contig (from the same author) which is a lightweight dos-style defrag tool: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Contig.mspx __________________ DOLPHIN 38

02-04-07, 12:09 AM	#2
Iceman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mesa AZ, Arizona, USA Posts: 1,253 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Let your OS determnine this as "Ram" in a windows machine gets tied up and not released until you do a "Hard" reboot...you can get into all kinds of trouble messing with it...unless your comfortable with trouble ....or running Linux/Unix or a Mac which handle memory better...As was pointed out above...different programs can hang onto ram and you find your self in a pickle. If you need more ram...you need more ram...or a better computer.