From: Ellen K. 

I heard somewhere (probably here! ) that regardless of what other
swap files you have you need one on the boot partition if you want to
capture crash dumps.

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:04:13 -0500, "Frank Haber"
 wrote in message
:

>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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