Thanks for the responses. I should give more context.
I was in the process of tracking down how some data files our
applications use became so fragmented. We use Windows 2003 server,
and have not historically used de-fragmenting software (although we
have now started to do so). We had
I have noticed that swap file writes are done in 4K blocks, but file
reads are done in 64K blocks. If it isn't possible to adjust this
behavior with configuration, then I suggest opening this up as a
performance issue that could be addressed in future releases of gvim?
Opening a large file would