I have read a  number of different ideas in different places regarding
setting up swap files.  Someone please straignten me out if the following is
in error.

First, here is the way I have set mine up.  I am running W98 on a 10G drive.
I used PMagic to make a small extended partition (D) for the swap file and
made it FAT 16 with 32K cluster size.  I let W98 handle the file, with min
of 0 mb and max of ~306mb.  I have 64MB of ram, but may add more later.  The
rest of the drive is the primary partition (C) with FAT 32.

I have heard that one should make the max/min size of the swapfile the same
so it won't get fragmented, and in the same partition (C) this would seem to
be best.  But in it's own exclusive partition, since all it does it
overwrite itself, it would not become fragmented(?), and would use only the
amount of the file it needed, rather than the whole thing each time, saving
some time it would seem.  Also with the 32k cluster size it should run
faster than the 4k of FAT32.

I don't know any way to really test or compare this.  SisSoft Sandra does
report the D logical drive as somewhat faster.  Is there a utility that can
measure directly, or any way to measure indirectly, the efficiency of the
various swap file setups.

Thanks, Edna Sloan

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