From: Robert Comer 

No, all the NT variants can use multiple swap files at the same time, one
on each spindle helps a little on swapping.

>According the link Rich
>posted if there is more than one available swap file windows figures out
>which will be the fastest to use and only uses that one swapfile.  At least
>that's what it seemed to say to me.

That's correct, it's pretty smart about it, but that one swap file can
reach it's maximum size, and the calculation of which to use is pretty
dynamic. It'll use only one of them if that's what it needs, but things
change.  I tend to put smaller ones on each disk rather than having one
super large on one disk.

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Bob Comer


On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:56:33 -0400, Gary Britt
 wrote:

>But windows only uses one of those swapfiles?  According the link Rich
>posted if there is more than one available swap file windows figures out
>which will be the fastest to use and only uses that one swapfile.  At least
>that's what it seemed to say to me.
>
>Gary
>
>Robert Comer wrote:
>> I keep 1 swap file on each of the disk drives in the system, its
>> better for performance.
>>
>> I also keep 1 small swap file on the system partition in case the
>> drive lettering gets screwed up.
>>

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