-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Moving your Swapfile

Reason B.

Question 1:  You said "At this point, the entire list should show the 
Swapfile as belonging in the new location only"

How does it show this?  With the virtual memory properties window open the 
list of drives and partitions shows only the size in MB of the swap file on 
each drive or partition.  For my computer, 7 locations are shown including 
external hard drive, flash drives, a PATA drive and both SATA drives.  Only 
the line for Drive C: has a size listed and it is 768 - 1536.

Question 2:  Would anybody want a page file in more than one location, such 
as on each hard drive?

Don







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Moving your Swapfile


> The only two reasons why someone might want to do this would be to
>
> a) isolate it on its OWN partition and at a specific, non-fluctuation size
> so that it never has a chance to fragment.
>
> b) have it on a separate hard drive so that the speed with which Windows 
> is
> able to grab data from it doesn't interfere with Windows OWN speed.  In
> other words, if the two are on the same partition, Windows will have to
> pause whatever it's doing in order to redirect its attention to shuffling
> through the swapfile for the data it requires.  It's very similar to the
> difference between stopping your work to look up an invoice in a filing
> cabinet verses continuing your work while someone ELSE looks up the 
> invoice.
>
> Having said that, here's my tutorial for moving the Swapfile.


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