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Date:	Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:06:09 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SWAPPER.DAT location

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I am currently looking at four swap files on three machines - one has
two versions installed and one of them was last run yesterday. The
machine with two installations is an old socket 7 P200 with 64M Ram the
other two have 256M.

The size of all swap files is the same: 2097152. This seems rather
small compared to some of the numbers I have seen reported. One reason
I put it in a root dir with little else is to make it easy to check -
yes I could run mem watch but that seems to be unneeded clutter for a
nonproblem.

The only time I have ever seen it grow was when something seemed to be
clogging the system and it gave me conformation that is was time to
start shutting down things or maybe even reboot.

Does all this have any bearing on where to put the swap file? I could
put them on the second HDD which supposedly would give them their own
head. However, since all my second drives are now removable, there is
always the possibility that it might not exist.

Ray

Steve Carter wrote:
>
>
> Conventional wisdom has one putting the swap file on
> the most-used partition of the least-used disk. For
> one-drive installations, I've chosen to leave the swap file
> in the boot partition, for lack of a better place to put it.
>
> But for multiple installations (of OS/2), it _could_ make
> sense to dedicate a separate swap partition, common to all.
>
> If the partition were physically located near the most commonly-
> booted partitions, it would help to minimize head movement.
> Of course, with RAM so cheap these days, you can minimize
> swap file use with your wallet.
>
> +++++++++++++++++
> On 9/5/02, Steven Levine wrote, in part:
> >...On 09/05/02 ..., Ray Davison said:
> >
> >>About the first thing I do after a fresh installation is send the swap
> >>file to the root directory of a junk partition. Is there any potential
> >>problem with pointing the swap files of multiple installations of OS/2
> >>to the same location?
> >
> >There's no problem. Swapper.dat is emptied/deleted on startup.
> >
> >You do want to consider head motion when you place swapper.dat.
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