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What about setting youe second hard drive as the swap file with a minimum of 0 and a maximum equal to the size of the drive? I have a second hard drive on one of my computers that was not getting used so that is what I did to experiment. what do you think? 20GB swap file. :-)
Before even starting to muck with the swapfile, see how much you actually use it.
Run SYSMON, and monitor Swapfile in use, not size.
Then, if you find you do make extensive use of it, monitor swapfile Size and use that number (plus a few MBs of fudge factor) as your MIN setting.
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I'm not sure how ME handles swap files but as a rule of thumb, a swap file need only be 2 and a half times the amount of RAM on your sustem. In W95 and W98 it was a good idea to point the swap file at a dedicated partition slightly larger than that. that way any defragging would leave it alone.
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As a rule, the rule of 2x or 2.5 times is invalid.
A swapfile depends on the amount of ram installed and the applications that you run. There is no magic formula to calculate the required size.
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well, it depends on the drive
If it's a slow small drive slaved to your other hard drive it might not be very good.
If it's on a fast drive on a separate ide channel you might get better performance.
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it is always better to have the swapfile on a drive that is not accessed much. For instance... if you only have one drive, the programs AND swapfile are both being accessed and written too. If you have a second drive and use it solely for a swapfile drive.. access times to both drives would be more efficient. However, if the drive is a slow drive, slow access times...
I purchased a 10gb WD 7200 rpm drive and use it solely as a swapfile drive. System performance has increased noticeably.. espcially whenn playing games. (a good high speed ATA capable mother board will increase the performance also).
If you use the second drive as a swap drive, set it up as master drive on secondary IDE (as to not use same IDE channel for Swap and program access). Setup the swap file to "let windows manage"... much more efficient. Windows ME will adjust the size of the swap file to what it needs.
good luck
Scootr
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