Page file and swap file?

[nunob]

I have a couple of questions about swap files and pagefiles will it increase system performance to delete the page file on an ntfs machine or the swap file on fat machines? and second how do you do this?

[NooNoo]

A complete can of worms as far as answers go.

XP/2k if you have enough ram - that is 1 gig or over, try it without the pagefile. Not all programs like no pagefile, so be prepared to put it back.

9x os's well they don't properly support enough ram to make it worth while - what does speed things up though is to set a min and max of the same size to stop windows forever trying to run the best size - this should be the amount of ram plus half as much again.

[nunob]

Ok one more NooNoo. I imagine that theses files get fragmented which would decrease performance so can you flushout or clear out the two files and how would you do it?

[NooNoo]

Not sure if diskeeper does it but this says it does pagedefrag

Edit diskeeper does...

pcworld has this to say about 9x swapfiles

[crazyman]

here is some on WIN2k,and especially if you have a spare hdd to use. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cook/Pagefile.htm

[nunob]

Thanks for the info Crazyman and NooNoo I appreciate it.