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NT's swap file is called PAGEFILE.SYS and is located in the root directory
of your boot drive. It is used basically the same way 98 uses it's swap
file. The reason they suggest creating a separate partition for it is to
prevent it from becoming fragmented over time. This is a valid strategy
(although until I see some benchmarks I am still dubious of the improvement
in performance) and most unix installations are set up this way.
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J. Cerar <mcerar@xxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:07 PM
Subject: RE: Defragging Win NT
Does anyone have any comments about using the following Hard Disk fine
tuning technique to reduce defragmentation in WinNT?
Set up a logical partition at the beginning of your hard drive to about 150%
of your RAM and then put the Windows Swap file on this partition.
I saw this tip on ZDNet a while ago (without any reference to a particular
version of Windows) but it does sound interesting. I don't even know if
Windows NT uses a swap file in the same way as Win9X.
Mark.
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