Swap File Confusion

[Carbo]

Running W2K Pro SP1. P3/500MHz, 384MB RAM, IBM DeskStar 75GXP 46G hard drive. I have the OS on the C drive, 6G's total with about 4.5 free. Four other partitions, and a total of about 22G's free space.
Presently, I let Windows handle the swap file. Is there an advantage to setting it manually? And is there an advantage to having it on a separate partition? If yes, where does it belong and how is it managed manually? Thank you.

 

[MulLa]

There is no real advantage setting it in another partition unless it's on another physical HDD.

 

[kw3i]

if you have a second hard drive in that box put it on its own partition on that second hard drive and make it the size of your ram for both min and max. if only one drive then keep it on the same partition as the OS and make it the same size as your ram for both min and max.

 

[Carbo]

No second hard drive. So, then, it's better to leave it with the OS on the C drive? Right now, the initial size is 576MB and the max is 1152.
Performance wise, is this significant in any way?