Nero

I have my "swap"file on a spare partition on another hard drive, always have
done.
I have two 160Gb Sata drives, XP on Drive one and Vista on Drive Two.

"Marty Felker" <martinfelker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> See my reply to Tom above. The reason to do away with a swapfile if you
> can is not only to save 4GB of diskspace but by putting all the apps in
> memory rather than the HD you improve performance considerablely AND
> reduce wear and tear on your HD. This works well - Linux warns about not
> using a swap file as well but it doesn't make a diff.
>
> Others on Linux forums say do away with it as well. Of course you then
> can't hibernate - but who cares? It's a feature for laptops anyway.
>
> Marty
>
>
> "Nero" <nero@rome.it> wrote in message
> news:%23XJlvx0CHHA.4620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Why do away with the"swap file"?
>> Even if if you have as much ram as possible, Vista will still use virtual
>> ram on a hard drive.
>> #
>> "Marty Felker" <martinfelker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ODDEof0CHHA.4832@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>I have 4GB of memory. I can run all Linux versions with a swap file - in
>>>fact its faster since no hard disk activity is needed.
>>>
>>> I have an AMD64 3700 processor as well. I dual boot Vista and XP Pro
>>> x64 (Linux distros are a different story - which I won't get into in
>>> this post).
>>>
>>> I find that I cannot change the swap file size (or for that matter the
>>> location of the swap file) in Vista 64 bit RC2. Is there any way to
>>> eliminate the swap file - I don't think I need it and it will save wear
>>> on my hard drives. If there is no way in RC2 to get around the 4GB swap
>>> file (Windows set size) will that be an option in Vista RTM in January?
>>> This will have a great deal as to whether I shell out.
>>>
>>> Is it because of the Ultimate Edition? Obviously I won't be getting
>>> that. In fact messing with Media Center was the only time I blue/black
>>> screened.
>>>
>>> Marty Felker
>>>
>>
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