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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I dont use a pagefile with 768megs,,,but M$ advises against it....i,ve been running this way for 16 months...no probs...but i dont play games or do photo shop etc....1.5xs the physical Ram is the setpoint....its up to you....set min and max the same for single partition Fat32...

triplate...


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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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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P.S.: Okay, so you were just asking us a question only...think I've given you what you'd already known. My apologies

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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:
>
>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.
>

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