Defrag

[Cota]

After reading Rojak's virtual memory optimization guide, I decided to defrag my hard disk.

I used diskeeper to defrag and optimize the page file.

Problem is that diskeeper won't move the page file to the end of the disk for faster access.

I tried several times, at first it said there wasn't a continous block big enough to move the page file, even tough I had already defragged the disk. Latter I found that I had to defrag several times as I still had lots of red blocks which means fragmented files.

After I had a enourmous block of continous free space and very little red blocks, I gave it a try, only to see that diskeeper said that the pagefile was not fragmented so it skipped the defrag process.

I miss using norton utilities to defrag, but I haven't used it since I switched to XP. And back then it was not compatible with ntfs.

[saturnotaku]

When I do a clean format, after I've installed most of my applications/games, I disable my swap file, reboot, defragment, then re-create the swap. That way when I use Diskeeper to defragment, the swap file doesn't get in the way and will be put at the end of the drive when I re-create it.

[Cota]

This is how it looks right now.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=9474&stc=1

I've already disabled, rebooted and created a new swap file, but it just wont move it.

[Da Alians]

in my experience diskeeper never bothers with moving the pagefile, just makeing it one big file, however those red specks should disappear after a defrag or two..so hrm

[Cota]

As a matter of fact I really don't trust diskeeper much, I defragmented the drive and after a reboot the frag analisys shows very different results. Almost all the big red blocks were not present before the reboot, still its much better than it was before.