Re: Several questions

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In news:1114629917.678679.142900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
tonybocymru@xxxxxxxxxxx <tonybocymru@xxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Galen,
>
> Thanks again, but not convinced. Accessing the information *at the
> same time* as the request is made is too much like having two people
> yelling simultaneously into opposite ears. There must be a time lag
> for any processing to take place. Whatever the merits of having the
> swap on a separate disc I cannot see much of an improvement over the
> head moving a hundredth of a millimetre to access an adjacent
> partition for its information. But I could be wrong - I often am <g>
>
> Haven't got around to creating a truly separate partition yet,
> contenting myself with having a single pagefile of about 1.5GB (I have
> 1 GB of RAM) on an adjacent drive not likely to be otherwise accessed
> by the OS during its fulminations. But a brief and unsuccessful foray
> into LINUX demonstrated some of the virtues of a separate partition
> although, of course, that OS is nowhere near as bloated as Windows
> anyway. Had I been prepared to splash out the cash for new compatible
> modem and printer to fully explore it I suspect I would not be here
> asking questions.
>
> Tony.

Each IDE channel is limited to a certain amount of bandwidth while the CPU
is capable of processing much more than what's coming from a single channel.
Thus it's not really much like yelling at the same time it's more like
someone IMing you when you're talking on the telephone. Great improvement?
No, not really, that's just the reasoning behind the tweak. I personally
don't bother with it though I do put it on it's own specially made partition
just to keep the root drive nice and tidy. I'd move the hiberfil.sys to that
drive if I could only figure out a way.

Galen
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mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes


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