pagefile.sys

[apir]

Hi. My Vista system has been very slow lately.

I just did a Health Check on my PC and got a System Diagnostics Report that says -

"The system is experiencing excessive paging. Upgrade the physical memory or reduce system load."

The memory portion of the report then said the "files causing most disk IOs" is pagefile.sys.

The stats next to pagefile.sys show the following:

Reads/sec = 23.4
Kb/Read = 24
Writes/sec = 0.3
Kb/Write = 1009

I really don't know what any of this means. Can anyone shed some light on what I can do to reduce system load?

Thanks!

[Miz]

The simple explanation is that your computer needs more RAM. Vista will run okay with one gig; it runs well with two gigs.

Whatever programs you're running use RAM. When all the RAM is used, the page file (an area on the hard drive) is used. The hard drive is slower than RAM which is why (among other reasons) RAM is used first.

Add more RAM and the page file won't be needed as much...or at all, depending on how much RAM you have and what you're asking the computer to do.

[apir]

I guess that explains it. Thanks.