On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup copies of the
NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in every backup copy starts to
eat up a lot of disk space.
In the days when I ran Windows I used to have at least one
On 23 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
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From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.
It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the
purpose.
...
After further googling, it appears it *does* fill the pagefile.sys
with zeros, and adds a significant delay
On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file on. I had a
bunch of spare extended partitions but all the docs say you can't put the
XP swap file on en extended paritition...
Ah, I didn't know that. In Win98, I think it
On 24 Jan 2009, at 17:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
used for system and application files. It seems like the
filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck.
3.
On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-01-23, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use
a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-01-23, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows
On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834
There is a registry setting in Windows to clear the pagefile.sys at
shutdown. What does clear mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I
don't know.
From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.
It
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834
There is a registry setting in Windows to clear the pagefile.sys at
shutdown. What does clear mean? To overwrite with 0?
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