It is counterintuitive. mike
On Dec 26, 2007 9:18 AM, John H. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred Holmes wrote: > > Get a 4GB flash drive, install it "permanently," and put the swap file > on it. Use it all for the swap file. For that portion of the swap file, > set the min and max sizes of the swap file to be the size of the whole drive > (as much as Windows will allow, which is a few megabytes less than all of > it). Keep some swap file on the installed hard drive, and set its minimum > size as low as possible. Then, early use of the swap file should default to > the flash drive, but there is swap file available if the flash drive should > fail or become accidentally removed. > > > > Fred Holmes > > > > At 07:36 AM 12/26/2007, Quentin Fisher wrote: > > > >> As digital files get larger and more numerous, I find even simple > sorting > >> and labeling tasks get more sluggish. I have a Dell Dimension Pentium 4 > >> running XP. I have maxxed on RAM, and installed a SATA hard dive. Would > >> upgrading the video card make much of a difference, or have I gotten > near > >> the limits of my processor and bus? Other suggestions? > >> > This seems counter intuitive to me. I would think that writing to > the SATA hard drive from the processor would be way far faster than > writing to a USB thumb drive. > > John > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
