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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Thursday, May 8, 2003 at 7:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by SgtBob
(1 messages posted)
Like the other writer, I too have been running without a swap file under XPpro with
512MB RAM. I play many intensive games and never have run out of physical memory.
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 6:49 pm, Nel MS wrote:
>Now, suppose that you are interested in performance and speed:
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>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)
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>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.
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>As a result, you have 2 seperate drives "doing their things" without obstructing
>each other for a swap file update.
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>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.
>
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