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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!t-ericj
- From: t-ericj@microsoft.com (Eric Johnson)
- Subject: Re: swapfile location
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.162824.18973@microsoft.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:28:24 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Sep1.071417.7517@megadata.mega.oz.au> <Bu4w4A.29w@belay>
- Keywords: swapfile
- Lines: 25
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- In article <Bu4w4A.29w@belay> fournes@belay (Who, me?) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.071417.7517@megadata.mega.oz.au> vince@megadata.mega.oz.au (Vince Sandrone) writes:
- >>in a multiple harddisk environment is it quicker to
- >>have the permanent swapfile on the SAME or Different
- >>harddisk to Windows (everything else being equal)
- >>
- >>thanks in advance
- >
- >I would think the same drive as womdpws (or most of the apps/data that
- >you would be running/reading) would make it faster, since then the
- >read/write heads wouldn't have as far to travel between swap and
- ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >application/data.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- (I'm not a windows support rep -- but I play one on the net)
-
- I don't know exactly what the answer is; but your reasoning is faulty.
- If the swapfile is on a disk other than Windows and apps, then then heads
- don't have to move at all -- each drive has its own set of heads.
- I'd put the swapfile on the disk with the lowest access time; if they are
- the same, I'd put them on the disk that does NOT have windows, so those
- heads can stay on windows and its apps, and the other set of heads
- can stay on the swapfiles.
-
-