re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 6:49 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nel MS
(7 messages posted)
Now, suppose that you are interested in performance and speed:
Put the swap file somewhere on a *seperate* physical disk drive. (This does not count
for partitioning your single drive into C: and D:, for instance)
As a result, you have 2 seperate physical drives...one dedicated for storing/accessing
Windows files --- and the other humming away doing the swap file.
As a result, you have 2 seperate drives "doing their things" without obstructing
each other for a swap file update.
BTW, never heard of eliminating swap files before... You need it in case (eg) you
play a memory intensive game and your memory runs out at the last minute. The result
is Windows XP (assuming) would choke halfway through and you'd lose your work.
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 5:38 pm, Brian wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
>I've got 1GB ddr running on an AMD 1.53ghz with one hard drive partitioned into
a
>9GB & 19GB. I've just defragmented all the drives and moved that swap file back
to
>its original location on the 9GB drive. What should I set the swap file size to
achieve
>the best results? The Windows default for min and max was set at 1534. And also,
>what effects would there be if I eliminated the swap file completely?
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