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nem-x had this to say about (_|_):
Why?
Cause on a separate partition, the page file can't get fragmented. I already hate memory swapping enough that I don't need it to be slow-ass.
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Lord Tier spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Cause on a separate partition, the page file can't get fragmented. I already hate memory swapping enough that I don't need it to be slow-ass.
just get an assload of ram and your swapping woes will be a thing of the past 
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Falaanla Marr said:
just get an assload of ram and your swapping woes will be a thing of the past
I'm sooo tempted to make a joke about her 'assload of rammage' 
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Verily, Lord Tier doth proclaim:
Cause on a separate partition, the page file can't get fragmented. I already hate memory swapping enough that I don't need it to be slow-ass.
Your page file doesn't get fragmented. It's set to its full size and then stays there. The only thing that might introduce fragmentation into it is if you make it larger.
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Drysart had this to say about Captain Planet:
Your page file doesn't get fragmented. It's set to its full size and then stays there. The only thing that might introduce fragmentation into it is if you make it larger.
Which is exactly what happened. I had set it to 256, which turned out (obviously) not to be enough... So I enlarged it, but since I was already low on space it got fragmented to hell.
Plus, I could use the leftover partition space for Photoshop scratch disk?
And is 512 MB large enough under Winblows XP?
On my 2nd hard drive, I have 39.5 gigs set to storage, and .5 gigs set to swap file. It was enough in 98 and ME, but XP seems to want more =/
As for defragmenting the pagefile, you'd have to turn it off then run enough defrags so that there's enough contigous space for the pagefile.
Anyways, I'm going to use PartitionMagic to make a 1gb-ish partition at the end of my drive for the swapfile. Then defrag my main drive til the whole damn thing is clean! 
