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 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
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.
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 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
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
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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
On 2009-01-24, ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote:
There actually is a good reason (oddly enough) for Windows
using a file on the filesystem for its swap space. Because it
is a simple file on disk, if Windows realizes that the swap
file is almost full, it can expand your swap without having to
do
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 2009-01-24, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
3. Does creating the swapfile on a journaled filesystem (e.g.
ext3 or reiser) incur a significant performance hit?
None at all. The kernel generates a map of swap offset - disk
blocks at swapon time and from then
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Grant Edwards wrote:
One implication of that is that the filesystem is then not
allowed to move blocks around if they are part of an active
swap file? Not that I'm aware of filesystems that shuffle
blocks around while they're part of an open
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:
http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/
That looks a really
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 2009-01-23, 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 XP use
a Linux swap
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?
On 2009-01-23, 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? To delete? I
don't
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