v027ef3u@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas L Daniels) (12/09/90)
Couple of questions concerning the best time and place to creat swapfiles: 1) should they be on the same drive as data and other things which change and possibly fragment or should I stick it on my program partitions (80 meg drive split into 1 meg dos, 50 program 29 data)? 2) I seem to remember someone recommending installing windows and swapfile before anything else and then using Speed Disk to compact the whole thing followed by installing the rest of the programs. 3) Will any of this make a noticable difference or am I just being anal about it all? Tomas v027ef3u@ubvms My views are my own. I especially like this view out the kitchen window.
hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari) (12/10/90)
In article <50067@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v027ef3u@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas L Daniels) writes: > Couple of questions concerning the best time and place to creat swapfiles: > > 1) should they be on the same drive as data and other things which change and > possibly fragment or should I stick it on my program partitions (80 meg drive > split into 1 meg dos, 50 program 29 data)? > 2) I seem to remember someone recommending installing windows and swapfile > before anything else and then using Speed Disk to compact the whole thing > followed by installing the rest of the programs. The swap file must reside on contiguous (unfragmented) sectors on the hard drive. If your hard drive is highly fragmented, it will limit the size of the swapfile to the largest unfragmented region. The best solution is to first remove the swapfile, then exit Windows and run Speed Disk, and then enter Windows again and reinstate the swapfile. As for the location, it seems to me that it would be better to put it on the program partition since that partition would rarely change and thus rarely fragment. The important thing is not to change the physical location of the swap file. By putting it on a partition that doesn't get fragmented, you still allow yourself the ability to run Speed Disk as much as you want on the data partition without having to delete the swap file first. (Note that you probably can run Speed Disk anyway with a swap file present IF Speed Disk refuses to move hidden files <I believe that is the case, isn't it?> But it seems to me that maximum optimization would occur if you ran it without the swap file present on the partition on which you run it). Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)