Facilitating fast pagefile

[tOM Trottier]

It would be nice to have an option to free a big empty space on the fast portion of the disk for the page file.

On booting, Microsoft's Pagedefrag (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx) will try to defrag the pagefile, or you could delete and recreate the pagefile, which might work sometimes...

tOM

[jeroen]

It would be nice to have an option to free a big empty space on the fast portion of the disk for the page file.

Thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it! Version 4 of JkDefrag will have a small scripting language, and one of the things that will be possible is making empty zones. There is no way to guarantee that Windows will place the pagefile in such a gap, though.

[Astroman]

i have found that moving the files to the end of disk, or creating a large gap from the default of 1% then running jkdefrag offline of just the pagefile.sys (as long as there are no other files in the way) it will move the pagefile much closer to the beginning of the disk, then i run it again excluding the pagefile, then boot back to windows and run it again, this time the api will be unable to move the pagefile anyway, and therefore it'll stay at the beginning of the disk

[tOM Trottier]

JKdefrag can't defrag the pagefile because it is always open. You can use PageDfrg from MS to  defrag it on boot, or delete & recreate to make it new, but then it needs new space.

tOM

[Astroman]

oh sorry, when I said Offline, I meant using a PE like BartPE, you can move the pagefile then,