I run win98 with 600Mb swap file, the start and shutdown time has no change,
defrag runs fine, I didn't see any problem at all. and, the swap file is not
on separate partition (I know it would be better to set a swap partition).

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Elmblade" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] 98 Swap file


> Lots of hard drive real estate.  You start dealing with the law of
> diminishing returns when you create a swap file of this size.  Startup and
> shutdown time will increase, and every time you run defrag it will take
> forever to reposition the swap file unless you delete it before running
> defrag.  To boot, I don't think Windows would EVER use this much.  IMHO.
>

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