You are not being a wise guy at all. To answer your question, I did contact the author at sysinternals.com about two week ago. Still waiting for the reply. I still feel there is something unique with a dual core processor that is different from a single core. In addition to the M90 dual core laptop, I also own a Dell Optiplex GX520 desktop and a Dell Latitude R400GT laptop. All three computers have XP Pro installed. The single core processors run flawlessly where the page file is defragmented. The dual core Dell M90 is a different story.
This is a portion of a defrag log that shows the page file has five fragments:
Fragments Bytes Clusters Name 5 3487637504 851474 C:\pagefile.sys
With my other two computers, the page files have zero fragments. In addition, the HD of the M90 is always fragmented around 40%. This high level exists even after running the XP defragmenter and a program called SmartDefrag. This has me stumped. Thanks for reading.
fireberd
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July 19th, 2009 08:00
Not to be a wise guy, but have you checked with the program originator? That would be my first stop for a 3rd Party add on program.
jackpan
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July 19th, 2009 18:00
You are not being a wise guy at all. To answer your question, I did contact the author at sysinternals.com about two week ago. Still waiting for the reply. I still feel there is something unique with a dual core processor that is different from a single core. In addition to the M90 dual core laptop, I also own a Dell Optiplex GX520 desktop and a Dell Latitude R400GT laptop. All three computers have XP Pro installed. The single core processors run flawlessly where the page file is defragmented. The dual core Dell M90 is a different story.
This is a portion of a defrag log that shows the page file has five fragments:
Fragments Bytes Clusters Name
5 3487637504 851474 C:\pagefile.sys
With my other two computers, the page files have zero fragments. In addition, the HD of the M90 is always fragmented around 40%. This high level exists even after running the XP defragmenter and a program called SmartDefrag. This has me stumped. Thanks for reading.
jackpan
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July 20th, 2009 15:00
Problem solved:
http://pcpropaganda.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/removing-windows-xp-paging-file-before-defragmentation/
Disk fragmentation went from 39% fragmented to 0%. Page file fragments went from five to one.
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e.pierce
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July 20th, 2009 16:00
vewwwy intewesting!
fwiw~ another possible solution would be to use set the "local security policy" to delete the pagefile at shutdown:
click "start | administrative tools | local security policy | local policies | security options | Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile | Properties | Enabled"