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10.4: Move swap files to another drive
To maximize performance: you typically want your swap/vm to be on the fastest part of the HD, and you want your vm files to be unfragmented. You can accomplish this by partitioning your boot drive into two partitions, the first (the first partition is faster) for vm/swap, and the second for your boot disk.
10.4: Move swap files to another drive
On the hardware side, more RAM should always be your first upgrade, so you can avoid VM swapping as much as possible. Faster spinning HDs (more Rpm) with more lanes for traffic (more MBps) are also a good upgrade (although they can get expensive) so that when you do swap, at least it won't take as long. Besides, with a faster HD, everything is faster, from boot-up, to app launch, to file reads, to file writes.
10.4: Move swap files to another drive
Just keep in mind that the performance you might gain from having a VM partition on the same physical drive as your OS, as far as not having fragmented files, is (probably) lost by the drive head having to travel farther.
10.4: Move swap files to another drive
Forgive me, but I'm not following you. How would reading a non-continuous stream of data be just as fast as reading a continuous stream?
10.4: Move swap files to another drive
I'm not sure where you have come up with the idea of having 5x RAM as a size for your VM partition. I have always read that 2x RAM is ideal. |
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