home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20 / NN_1992_20.iso / spool / comp / os / mswindo / setup / 1202 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Text File  |  1992-09-09  |  1.0 KB  |  29 lines
  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ubc-cs!alberta!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cuugnet!belay!fournes
  3. From: fournes@belay (Who, me?)
  4. Subject: Re: swapfile location
  5. Message-ID: <Bu4w4A.29w@belay>
  6. Keywords: swapfile
  7. Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  8. References: <1992Sep1.071417.7517@megadata.mega.oz.au>
  9. Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 01:57:45 GMT
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Sep1.071417.7517@megadata.mega.oz.au> vince@megadata.mega.oz.au (Vince Sandrone) writes:
  13. >in a multiple harddisk environment is it quicker to
  14. >have the permanent swapfile on the SAME or Different 
  15. >harddisk to Windows (everything else being equal)
  16. >
  17. >thanks in advance
  18.  
  19. I would think the same drive as womdpws (or most of the apps/data that
  20. you would be running/reading) would make it faster, since then the
  21. read/write heads wouldn't have as far to travel between swap and
  22. application/data.
  23.  
  24.                                         --- Eugen Fournes
  25.                                 path:   fournes%belay@uunet.uu.net
  26.  
  27.  
  28.  
  29.