I cant find any documentation or articles online online for this...
how does Windows handle page files on multiple hard drives? Does windows treat them as a concatenation, writing to one till its full then moving to the next? Or does it treat them like a stripe, writing to each one incrementally? Does it write to the first one free? Or perhaps some other method?
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The most relevant information I could find was an article on optimal configuration of the page file under Windows XP.
The article states that Windows will use the page file located on the volume with the least activity. This means that there is no pattern defined.
So, it is arguable that the most likely way that Windows handles multiple page files is by maintaining a table of where each memory page is located. Where a page winds up depends largely on which volume was least active when it got paged out.
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