POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : pagefile.sys : Re: pagefile.sys Server Time
8 Oct 2024 20:53:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: pagefile.sys  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 30 Sep 2009 16:58:38
Message: <4ac3c67e$1@news.povray.org>
SharkD wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> On a semi-side note. Had to defrag mine, which Windows doesn't 
>> normally allow. Page Defrag utility from sysinternals works nice 
>> (though I need to run it again, now that I succeeded in defragging all 
>> the files I couldn't, because the page file was in 33,000 pieces... 
>> O.o It runs before anything but the basics starts up, just after the 
>> initial loading screen, so pagefile.sys isn't yet in use.
>>
>> You would think, even with the slight overhead, trying to keep this 
>> thing in one chunk, as much as possible, would have been useful... Sigh!
> 
> You can use the defrag utility if you restart using Safe Mode + Command 
> Prompt. This might allow you to defrag the page file since lots of stuff 
> is being bypassed.
> 
> -Mike
Hmm. If it was that simple, I doubt they would have developed the tool, 
but maybe. Though, in the case of this tool, its designed to *only* 
defrag the one file, so its faster, and as a boot process, you might 
probably want that. ;)

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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