Re: Swap files on secondary hard drive

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From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat May 13 2000 - 05:11:27 EDT


>From what I have read, putting the swapper file
on the least used drive is generaly sound advice.

On my Warp system, the swapper file is on drive 2,
as well as on a Windose95 system.

On the dos95 system I let the OS manage the size.

On the Warp system, I set it to what it uses, plus
a spare amount. If you set it too small, the system
may crash. OTOH setting it to one size speeds
things up a little.

On my 760XL 104Mb system, the swapper is on
the primary drive, but it is set to a size based on
trial and error.

On Fri, 12 May 2000 12:42:46 -0700 (PDT), Garrett Kaste wrote:

>I know that having a second hard drive to dedicate to
>windows swap files can speed up your system, and it
>works well on my p3. I have a 340mb PCMCIA hard drive
>that I could use with my 760xd laptop. Does anyone
>know if PCMCIA will be too slow to do this or
>anything. I have 104mb ram, and I dont recall how
>much you should have dedicated per meg of ram. If any
>one knows that would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Garrett Kaste.
>
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