> Sure, but that's all part of the disk usage. I'd think that most people > would use a swap/paging file of a set size based on the machines > setup. That way the file remains unfragmented and can be placed at a > specific location on the disk.
Yes thats true to some extent, the machine I use at work gets absolutely hammered at busy times. I'll be printing A3 size photos, burning DVD's, batch encoding AVI's to mpeg's, converting mpeg's to Video_TS files etc. all while reading messages on this list and scouring eBay. I usually manually set the size of the swap file to three times the amount of RAM, from experience I find this to be the optimum, any bigger and the machine slows down - it's best to utilise RAM as much as possible because it reads faster than a drive/partition. > Absolutely best on a separate drive, > or at least a separate partition. Yes agreed, I use a seperate drive, when it comes to defrag I move the swap file to the primary drive - defrag the "swap drive" - and move the swap file back. Drives defrag quicker with no swap file present on them and from a cold start. John
