can't get a contiguous pagefile

Post by **Fender** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:33 am

40 GB HD, 2 GB RAM
30 GB Free
I've defragged multiple times, with pagefile and system restore turned off. I create a 3 GB pagefile... 2 fragments every time. The contiguous free space, guessing from defrag util, is at least 15 GB. wtf is going on?
I've also tried sysinternals pagedefrag, on an existing pagefile, with no luck.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:01 am

OS and file system?

I would guess it gets split into 2Gb chunks

Post by **Fender** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:15 am

XP SP2 & NTFS
I've never had this problem on XP before.
And the 1st chunk appears to be tiny. I'm guessing only a couple hundred MB.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:31 pm

Does it matter? With 2 GB you should be pretty swap-safe. And besides, the OS only swaps memory in 4K chunks, so the layout of your page file will make little difference.

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:54 am

defrag in safe mode?

i heard things about this being better and may even solve your dileminacle