rebuilding the paging file

[carlrowley1]

hello everyone

In Windows Vista,would rebuilding the paging file do any harm.
And does it optimize perfomance slightly

[Allan]

What do you mean, rebuild the paging file? Disable and reset? No, it does nothing.  If you want, you can do an offline defrag of the pagefile once in a while.

[carlrowley1]

What do you mean, rebuild the paging file? Disable and reset? No, it does nothing.  If you want, you can do an offline defrag of the pagefile once in a while.

Yea,  If i was to uncheck  "  Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"  and then highlight the drive the paging file is on, then select the "customize size" option.

Then change Minimum and maximum page file size to "0" then click set

restart computer

Reopen the paging file properties window and highlight the drive that contained the paging file , then choose the "system managed size option" and click set.


Does this not do anything......

If you want, you can do an offline defrag of the pagefile once in a while.

How do i do an offline defrag

[Allan]

Are you having some problem with the system? As a rule you can just set and forget the pagefile. If you want to defrag it you'll have to obtain a third party utility.

[patio]

Defragging the pagefile to boost performance is as big a Myth as cleaning out the Registry...

However...carry on...

[Allan]

Defragging the pagefile to boost performance is as big a Myth as cleaning out the Registry...

However...carry on...

Agreed, but it's a better placebo than clearing and reinitiating the pagefile.

[Quantos]

Agreed, but it's a better placebo than clearing and reinitiating the pagefile.

I find that my computer is faster if I strap a watermelon to each foot and...

[patio]

....go downhill.........

[BC_Programmer]

SysInternals has a tool that defragments the page file at boot. I think it was called "PageDefrag". It takes forever though and I certainly didn't see much of an improvement.

[Quantos]

SysInternals has a tool that defragments the page file at boot. I think it was called "PageDefrag". It takes forever though and I certainly didn't see much of an improvement.

You really won't see much or any improvement, contrary to populare beleif, Windows only pages what it absolutely needs to send to the page file.

[BC_Programmer]

your missing the point- the pagefile is written to just like any other file, and when the file is expanded (as it will be occasionally during normal operation) it can get fragmented, just like any file. The thing is, it would have to be in a LOT of fragments to affect performance, and the pagefile is really only expanded when the system is under stress anyway, such as a runaway memory allocation.

[Quantos]

Aye, see my previous post.

[carlrowley1]

Are you having some problem with the system? As a rule you can just set and forget the pagefile. If you want to defrag it you'll have to obtain a third party utility.

No, having no problems, its just something i seen on a well known site, and thought i might give it a try.
But as always i thought i would get a second opinion and find out a little more....

I 'll probably give this a miss now..

Here's another one though,  what about setting a "static paging file"  to optimize performance as it states on the site...

What i am doing, is just building a folder of all performance tweaks for future reference plus try some of these myself, but i wasen't sure on this one, as i know what the page file does, hence the post...

I find that my computer is faster if I strap a watermelon to each foot and...

"what"   I'am interested to know, if it helps...  

[Quantos]

No, it doesn't really help, but it is amusing to see....

[carlrowley1]

No, it doesn't really help, but it is amusing to see....

I did realize that, but just wondered why you did not finish it of, as i am curious as to what you would have put....

I find that my computer is faster if I strap a watermelon to each foot and......."listen to the beatles all day long"

Sorry its just my wiered sence of humor