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| 188709 | 2003-11-02 09:17:00 | Hey… Don’t know if this is a common question or not… but anyway Is it possible to move the SwapFile (PageFlie-what have you) To the outside of the disk… And does this make any difference to the performance of the machine If so – where where do I begin Falcon |
00falcon (3801) | ||
| 188710 | 2003-11-02 10:20:00 | yes, either make a seperate partition for it or use an app such as nortons speed disk which can move the swapfile to the front of the disk. as far as speed increase goes. it all depends on how much you use the swap file. those that use it a lot will can a fair amount of speed, tho your milage may vary. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 188711 | 2003-11-02 10:43:00 | Ok... I have Speed disk... Tools - Options-- Turn on the view for system files and then move pagefile.sys...? XP... Falcon |
00falcon (3801) | ||
| 188712 | 2003-11-02 10:49:00 | if you have speed disk then simply look at the disk map, the swap file should already be at the top. if not run norton optoimiser then speeddisk. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 188713 | 2003-11-04 22:07:00 | if you have 2 HDD the swap file is even better off on the 2nd one | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 188714 | 2003-11-04 23:27:00 | not always. its best when its on the FASTEST one ;-) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 188715 | 2003-11-04 23:51:00 | true but two read heads are better than one especially during times of intensive activity | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 188716 | 2003-11-05 00:11:00 | Oh... (without Speed disk) You could of course just right click my computer, and Click Performance Tab, and where the page file exists, just type in 0 and click the set button and then type a value for your page file somewhere else... |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 188717 | 2003-11-05 00:16:00 | > Oh... (without Speed disk) > > You could of course just right click my computer, and > Click Performance Tab, and where the page file > exists, just type in 0 and click the set button and > then type a value for your page file somewhere > else... > can you explain that a bit clearer??? you can change the file location ie what drive its on etc easy enough but you can't change the location on the disk without a third party app (afaik). |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 188718 | 2003-11-05 00:29:00 | Oh for real operating systems .... RT11, for the PDP11 (and OS/8 for the PDP8 before that) had a command: CREATE /ALLOCATE:<size> /START:<block number> <filename.ext> . Easy, though the PDP/8 version had the minor problem that the size was in decimal and the postion was in octal (or the other way around ;-)). |
Graham L (2) | ||
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