From: "Geo" 

Move your swap file to a different drive, defrag original, set the swap to
physical memory + 20% for both the min and max size (or larger if you like
but set both to the same) back on the original drive, this will give you a
contiguous swap file that never gets fragmented. If you allow it to grow
and shrink, it gets fragged really bad.

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:41c09679$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Data point: Every big OEM ships machines with the principal swapfile set
> manually to 700-1500k for a 512MB machine (proportionally larger or
smaller
> for different amounts of shipped RAM).  I presume they know something
about
> swapfile thrashing, needless overhead expanding and shrinking the .SWP,
etc.
> I set my homemades the same way, on the theory that I have the space, and
why
> not just follow the leader blindly (g).
>
> I run a number of old P4s with 30-40G system disks, plus 80-250G drive 1s.
I
> always move the big swapfile to D:, and manually set a 20-40MB fixed
swapfile
> on C:, based on some old NT4/NTFS info I got once.  Does anyone know
whether
> this info is still valid, or just more fodder  for my Cargo Cult approach
to
> administration?
>

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