Re: virtual memory tutorial

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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00

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"Ken Blake" <nobody@home.com> wrote:

>Putting the swap file on a separate partition is not a good
>idea. For best performance the swapfile should be close to
>the other data you access frequently. This minimizes head
>movement to and from it. Putting it on a separate partition
>puts it far from the other data, maximizes head movement,
>and decreases performance.
>
>The swap file should be on the most-used partition of your
>least-used physical drive. With a single drive, that's
>normally C:.

It is...it's on drive D, on a 5-partition setup. Windows is on E, part
of physical C. I mentioned the portability because I move it
temporarily to another drive every time I decide to alter its size
upward, allowing a full defrag and a contiguous minimum swapfile.

Tom

>
>--
>   Ken Blake
>   Please reply to the newsgroup.
>
>

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From: tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: virtual memory tutorial
Date: 1999/06/05
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