From: "Robert Comer" 

There is one problem in not having a swap file on your system partition --
should the partition your swap is on not be available fore some reason, NT
wont boot. (so you can't get to any of the GUI tools to fix not having your
swap file partition)

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e34834a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'd probably need it to crash 2 or 3 times before I resorted to trying to
> make sense out of a dump file. I find the event (and other sources) log
much
> more useful.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Ellen K."  wrote in message
> news:cqe83vod9i9vekr3apj3c8r1aa3enrco8n{at}4ax.com...
> > IOW if it crashes once, put one back on C in case it crashes again,
> > otherwise don't worry about it?
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:30:23 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> > message :
> >
> > >"Ellen K."  wrote in message
> > >news:efk63v4n9ve4pdtr61f3rbb8pgi6qad2h4{at}4ax.com...
> > >
> > >> For performance reasons I wanted the swap file to be on the solo
drive.
> > >> I was able to create one there, no problem.   However,
according to
> some
> > >> message boxes etc apparently I *HAVE* to have one on C
if I want to
> > >> capture dumps in case of crashes.   Is there any way I
can make the
one
> > >> on C *ONLY* be used for that purpose, and use the one on the solo
drive
> > >> for normal swapping?
> > >
> > >Just ignore the requirement for dumps, nobody uses them anyway unless
you
> > >have some serious problem that isn't going away and in that case you
can
> > >always re-enable the feature and create a swap on C:. It should not be
a
> > >requirement of a production db because the production system shouldn't
be
> > >crashing and dumping .
> > >
> > >Geo.
> > >
> >
>
>

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