Re: Keeping the swapfile in a separate partition

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:31:02 GMT

In article <ul8ts05r5utkgcv8d170amgo0bkh36rcp3@4ax.com>,
alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com says...
> alegator wrote:
>
> >Thanks everyone for their answers. I currently have 2Gb of RAM and have the
> >paging file assigned to a MAX and MIN values of 4096MB. Is this fine?.
>
> Very wasteful of disk space. You will hardly be using the file at all,
> other than as a place to assign pages not yet brought into use after
> programs have asked for the allocation (and many ask for much more than
> they need). I would set initial 100 and max maybe 1000 to cover that
> point. The idea that page file should be a multiple of RAM - *any*
> multiple - is plain wrong and makes no sense at all in a single user
> system like windows. It is an old rule of thumb from Multi-user Unix,
> where it did make sense

I run a computer in a single user environment and edit large graphics
files all the time. When the swap file is set to vary between X & Y the
computer takes ages to INCREASE from X to Y. With the swap file setup on
another physical drive, and set to 2 X RAM, it made a LARGE difference
in performance. With 2GB of RAM, the swap, on a single drive system,
should be set to about 1GB fixed size, in an unfragmented space, to
allow for anticipated use of the swap area - if the user is running
memory intensive apps (which 2g of RAM might indicate), then a 2gb or
4gb fixed size swap area might be reasonable.

My news reader will use 1GB of ram from time to time, it's amazing at
how much RAM non-business apps can use. 

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