-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. But I > long ago stopped trying to figure out why Windows does things...
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 things like repartition. This makes the "swap is full - out of memory"-type problems less likely to occur (unless it is "filesystem is full" as well :) ). - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl7Za8ACgkQOypDUo0oQOp8egCgwWyB4db6ZYJ9YwgvG/dq70Rq 64cAn3laOOtlhh7zN7ni85WpBYZDyLz6 =T1za -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
