Do you get better Vmem performance if you have 2 blocks on different physical disks? (Win2000)

Noriaki

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In Win2k you can set Virtual Memory blocks by disk right.

Well I have 2 IBM 75GXPs
If I put 256MB Vmem on each instead of 512MB on the 2nd one (1st one has OS and apps) would that performance better?
 

CocaCola5

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I have the same concern as you. I have four drives total and I put a 100mb swap file on three and 250mb on the fourth. I think its faster but not totally sure. In theory, my reasoning was, since win2k randomly writes to the fastest swap files it sees, than having more swap files across more drives is faster. I think you gain alot in write speed but you might lose some in access times if you run alot of drives like mine. Anyone in the know on swap file and win2k?