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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: STACKER question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224151.27283@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1993Jan25.144409.10557@bnr.ca> <C1FCCx.F70@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:41:51 GMT
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- In <C1FCCx.F70@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ...green spleen... <trd54583@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
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- >panton@bnr.ca (Kenneth Panton) writes:
- >>and turns C: into a logical drive. How can I get Windows to create the
- >>permanent swap file on C:? Does this have something to do with the SSWAP
- >>driver?
- >>--
- >>Ken Panton | Bell-Northern Research | Opinions expressed
- >>panton@bnr.ca | Ottawa, Canada | are my own
- >>ESN 393-7961
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- >Well, you don't really want to put any Windows swap files on the compressed
- >drive. The reason for this is that, if Windows has to write to the swap
- >file, the stuff has to get compressed, so Windows runs slower.
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- No, the reason for this is that if you try to use a permanent swap
- file on a Stacker volume, you will at some point hose your Stacker
- drive.
-
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