Better to leave a small fixed swap file on the system drive (maybe 100 megs
max and min) and put the rest on a physically separate drive (not just a
separate partition) but a separate partition is OK if you only have one
drive (please note that if you have multiple drives in striped/mirrored or
striped with parity it is still really just one drive with one or more
partitions. And as with the other swap/pagefile still set the min and max
sizes the same this avoids fragmentation and keeps the OS running faster for
longer.
My previous job was looking after the teams that provided desktop support
for 4,500 desktops and fixing the swap files to a fixed size cut the amount
of rebuilds due to "a general slow down in performance" by over 90% over a 3
year period. I put this down to the fact that a dynamic swap file and an OS
that modifies hundreds of temporary files hundreds of times and hour cannot
be a good arrangement.
The only exception I made was on servers where I a fixed 200 meg file on the
system drive and a 1 gig partition on a separate physical disk just for the
swap file.
That is all I can think of on the subject of swap files hope it of some help
to somebody.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
> What is the current setting for the swap file? If less than 256M, I'd say
> yes! If you have multiple drives, splitting it across them can also be a
> good idea (at least that is what others here have said!).
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew P. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:37 PM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
>
>
> > >>
> > What is the amount of RAM and the size of the swap file(s)? Swap should
be
> > 2-3X RAM (3X is better)!
> > >>
> >
> > The machine has 128 megs of RAM. In use is 1.3 megs with peak 2.3 megs.
> > (figures from winmsd)Should I still increase the swap file ?
> >
> > Andrew P. Kaplan, CNE, MCSE+Internet, MCT, CCNA, CCDA
> > CyberShore, Inc. -- Premium Internet Services -- http://www.cshore.com
> >
> >
> > Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we
> > ought to know a little about everything.
> > -- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel
Donnelly
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:53 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
> > >
> > >
> > > What is the amount of RAM and the size of the swap file(s)? Swap
should
> be
> > > 2-3X RAM (3X is better)!
> > >
> > > Set all IMail services to Manual and restart the computer and then try
> > > applying the patch. Set services back to Auto and either start them or
> > > restart the computer (first is faster!).
> > >
> > > Daniel Donnelly
> > > ________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andrew P. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "IMail_Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:26 AM
> > > Subject: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
> > >
> > >
> > > > We are running 6.05 on a NT 4.0 sp6.a box.
> > > >
> > > > The webservice has been crashing for the past two days.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have deleted the spool files and restarted the box following
> someones
> > > > suggestion (I think Dusty "Auto restart of the service has been
turned
> > > > off").
> > > >
> > > > Event View Error
> > > > EVENT ID 4097 The application, , generated an application error
> > > The error
> > > > occurred on 5/24/2001 @ 9:11: 0.471 The exception generated
> > > was c0000005
> > > > at address 0046ff5e (<nosymbols>)
> > > >
> > > > I tried unsuccesfully to instally the 6.06 patch. I stopped all
> > > the Imail
> > > > services. However, the install screen just hangs on "Updating
> > > System" The
> > > > process is running however, the progress bar hangs on 0%.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Andrew P. Kaplan,
> > > > CyberShore, Inc. -- Premium Internet Services --
http://www.cshore.com
> > > >
> > > >
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we
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