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Richard wrote:
> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:esftsnYxEHA.1984@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
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>>In doing a defragmentation, I notice that my swap
>>file (green, unmovable) is split into three separate
>>pieces. That could, I'd think, cause some slowing
>>down of operations. Any comments? Or a way to put
>>humpty-dumpty back together again?
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>> William B. Lurie
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>
> If I remember correctly from dipping into your threads from time to time you
> have two drives fitted. If this is correct the most efficient way of
> configuring your swap file is to put it on the drive that does not contain
> your OS and programs. You will then not have these unmovable fragments on
> your main drive and actual operations which use a lot of virtual memory will
> be a bit faster. You will also find that defrags of your drives will not
> need to be so frequent. BTW when I defrag I do it in safe mode. This runs
> much faster and leaves a cleaner picture of the drive.
>
> Richard
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>
All very good points and advice, Richard. However, altho' I do use two
drives from time to time, I use the Slave only as a target for making a
full clone backup, so when I'm running 'normally' I have only one drive,
so the swap/page file has to be on that drive.
W B L
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William B. Lurie