I have seen many opinions & reasons for doing it many different ways.
Personally, I don't think having a min/max set for the swap file is a good
idea.
Having a maximum size means you 'could' run out of room in the swap file.
Having a minimum size means the file won't be completely removed/replaced at
bootup.
To me that means the possibility, however small, that the swap file could
save corrupt data.
On this machine, I have a relatively small (30GB) EIDE 7200 HDD that I like
to use as my swap file drive.
I put nothing else on it and allow Windows to manage the size.
That way it is not slowed by anything else being accessed/written to the
drive.
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> Pagefiles are a subject that seems to arouse disproportionate wrath and
> ire - sort of like the Mac/PC controversy but without (most of) the
> religious overtones. Should you normalize your your pagefile (ie set the
> upper and lower bound the same)? Should all or part of it be on another
> spindle (hard drive) - NOT partition? Where do you stand on the
> Fragmentation issue and why? Well, I would say normalize and if you feel
> like it do the spindle thing too. How's that for fence-sitting?
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