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Re: [XP] Swap file question
Hi,
Perhaps that was a strategy that made sense a while ago when drives were slower and main memory was more expensive.
Even then though it strikes me it should be in the middle from a statistical point of view of where the heads will be at any point in time.
If I only had one hard drive I would opt to add as much main memory as I could. That one disk can only handle one task at a time. If there is an inadequate amount of main memory, overall performance will suffer because the disk will be serving paging needs frequently and not be able to serve program needs during that time. *I've heard the phrase "thrashing" to describe this situation.*
Also, I would have more than one hard drive. Not only does it give a really neat place, performance wise, to put the paging file it also can be used for data, on line backup, etc.
Good Luck
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