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echo: nthelp
to: Robert Comer
from: Gary Britt
date: 2007-05-11 09:23:14
subject: Re: Questions About NT 4 Workstation; I just bought a copy.

From: Gary Britt 

OK Thanks,

Gary

Robert Comer wrote:
> 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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