I considered virtual/paging file on a separate disk,
but decided that the ability to run from 1 drive was more important.
Next option on my (planned for late 2006/early 2007) machine will be 3GB
Memory, and no pagefile at all.
Re backup strategy
You may note much of my second drive is the same usage as the first,
But not Raid - as I don't want a duplicate of the OS or partitions that just
got wrecked, or simply had the wrong files deleted
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I'm gonna have to do some in-depth NTFS investigation to determine if there
is a better place to put the swap/pagefile than near the start of the OS
partition
depends on the processing done to access the swap/pagefile space, but I
suspect most of the information needed to access the file will be held in
cache
Also - on win95 I determined by testing that having cache on a controller
actually slowed down the system
CPU wants some data -
CPU level 1 cache search - NO
CPU level 2 cache search - NO
Memory page search - NO
gotta read from 'disk'
Memory 'Disk' cache search ( perhaps 40Mb) - NO
Controller cache search (32Mb) - NO
Disk drive cache search (8Mb)- NO
Read the drive
If it wasn't in the Memory Disk cache -
why would it be in the controller cache
and - if you hadn't issued a read-ahead
why would it be in the disk cache if it wasn't in the controller cache
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Considering the above makes some interesting costing for what to spend money
on for the best throughput!
and that's without considering the electricity bill for 2 years use!
300watts (with screen)
10 hours a day (Home worker 8 for them, 2 for me)
6 day week
45 working weeks a year
2 year working life
300 x 10 x 6 x 45 x 2 = 1,620,000Watts
(depending on where you live, discount lots as background heating, and/or
add for Air-con overhead)
JimB
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