Page and Swap File?

I've set the Page File for my C: drive to No Page File and my D: to System Managed.
Doing this places the Page File on my D: drive,
which is the faster of the 2 drives.


The question is,
should I still have a Swap File on my C: drive and also one on my D: drive?

Here's a screenshot of the C: drive.
Notice the Swap File and no Page File.


Here's a screenshot of the D: drive.
Make note of the Page File and also the Swap File.


I was under the impression,
that if I disable the Page Files on a specific drive,
that both Page and Swap Files shouldn't be present on this drive?
Is it normal to have 2 Swap Files of the same size on different drives?

dalchina said:

Hi, this may be of interest- apologies if all is familiar.
I've moved my pagefile.sys off my (C: ) - swapfile.sys is only present on C:

No this is not familiar.
I don't understand why I have two swap files.
Should I only have one swapfile.sys?
If so, how can I change this?

dalchina said:

Sorry- missed the URL I meant to post:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/hiberf...le-sys-windows
I can only say what I observe on my PC, I'm afraid..

Okay, thanks for the link.
I understand what and why there are these kinds of files.
The question is...
If I set my C drive to No Page File and then set the page file to be on my D drive as System Managed.
Why is it that I have 2 swap files, and are both swap files being used, or not?

Also if you placed your page file on another drive, other then the C drive.
Why is it that you only have one swap file, yet I've done the same thing and I have 2 swap files?

dalchina said:

- I could consider moving my swapfile.sys if I wished.

Thanks again for the links.
Didn't you say that you only have one swap file, so why would you want to move it?

I on the other hand have 2 such file.
Would it be safe, if I could, to just remove one of them?

dalchina said:

I would assume you should be able to delete one- should be under 256Mb. Simply check the date modified.. one of yours will hopefully be old.

Otherwise I'm simply commenting on the differences.. and saying 'I could'..

I'm confused, so I just set the page file to be system managed for all drives.
Now I have 2 page file and 2 swap files, one swap and page file for each drive.

Geosammy said:

I'm confused, so I just set the page file to be system managed for all drives.
Now I have 2 page file and 2 swap files, one swap and page file for each drive.

I've always seen paging file [virtual memory] on Windows NT-based versions and swap file on Windows ME and earlier.

I set the paging file on the C: drive at 2048MB and on a second hard drive at the recommended 1.5 times the physical RAM. With 8GB RAM that would be 2048MB on C: and 12288 on D:. I've seen marked improvement in system performance on the computers. Some program installations look for the paging file on the same drive as the OS.