Swap file Size

[Grinja]

How large should a windows swap file be?
I've read that windows default is 1.5 times RAM?

Any suggestions?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I set mine at 2X RAM. 4gb of hard drive space is nothing.

 

[Grinja]

Well i'm moving over to Vista 64 soon ... have 4gb RAM.

In any case most people recommend it should be on a seperate drive to OS/Apps games etc. I was just wondering if size will have an impact on performance.

Will there be a performance impact to having OS on the same drive as Apps/Games?

 

[nerp]

Best leave it at default, especially on Vista. It will resize the file if it needs and the overwhelming majority of times you modify the swapfile from default, you lose performance.

You CAN put the swap on a seperate drive, if you want, but make sure it's the fastest drive in the system. Putting it on a seperate partition on the system drive won't do you any good -- that simply moves the swapfile towards the end of the drive and forces the heads to jump around more than necessary. You shouldn't be worried about defragmentation or anything like that.

Fiddling with swapfiles is so 90s.

 

[will889]

Very well said nerp, and accurate too.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: nerp
Fiddling with swapfiles is so 90s.

Haha, well said, especially with 4GB of RAM .