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I think that a better way to set up the pagefile is on
a partition on a separate hard drive so that two drive
heads can be transferring the data simultaneously
rather than just one. [faster swaps and no pagefile
fragmentation]
Kent Rollins wrote:
>
> 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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