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to: Geo.
from: Gary Britt
date: 2007-05-11 09:21:44
subject: Re: Questions About NT 4 Workstation; I just bought a copy.

From: Gary Britt 

OK, so it writes to only one swap file at a time but it will use more than
one swap file during the same up time session.  That's a bit different than
I understood previously.

Thanks to you Frank and Rich for straightening me out.

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> news:4643a4d0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Do you do this with Win2K and XP as well?  I wasn't aware that Windows
>> (any flavor) would use more than one swapfile at any one time??  Am I
>> wrong on this?
>
> Windows will use whatever swap file is closest to the r/w heads, but it
> uses just one at a time so the max drive speed is the max swap speed. If
> one drive is faster, put swap on that one.
>
> Geo.

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