Merrick
September 18th, 2003, 09:53 PM
Originally I published this here:
http://www.prosoundreview.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143
But I'd like to also share it with Cybertechhelp. :wave:
If you have your swap file in the default C:\Windows location, this dose not apply. But If you are tweaking your DAW here's some tips:
If you have another fixed hard drive besides the drive where your O/S (presumably C:\Windows) is resident that IS NOT an audio/video writing drive, let's say for example a drive for backup, samples, whatever, then you should put your swap file on it. If you are setting up the drive for the first time, make the first (outermost partition which is the fastest physical access) reserved for your swap file. A good rule is 2x your ram. So a 512MB Ram system should have a 1.1GB FIXED swap file formated with 32k clusters. You'll see a good boost since now as your drives write data they can simultaneously read from the swap. If you can't set up the drive fresh, it still pays to put the swap file on it anyway.
Note:
Having a separate partition for swap file set up on a slower hard drive would still be faster than having it on a faster hard drive that contains the O/S (presumably C:\Windows).
Having the swap file on a different partition than the O/S (presumably C:\Windows), but still on the same physical drive does not increase performance:cry:
Okay so what's all this about two swap files:confused:
By default at setup Windows puts the swap file in C:\Windows. If you change the swap file location at that point then the original, unused swap file in C:\Windows "sticks behind". No damage to the system but another file that the O/S has to "read around". If you add that new drive later and decide to create a swap file on it, the old swap file and it's resident data just lays there like a dead log and you can't delete it from Windows Gui :mad:
To remove the old swap file ONLY after you have successfully installed the new swap file:
Reboot into pure dos (hit f8 and choose command prompt only) and type:
C:\>Deltree /y C:\Windows\386.swp
hit enter and reboot
:thumb:
http://www.prosoundreview.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143
But I'd like to also share it with Cybertechhelp. :wave:
If you have your swap file in the default C:\Windows location, this dose not apply. But If you are tweaking your DAW here's some tips:
If you have another fixed hard drive besides the drive where your O/S (presumably C:\Windows) is resident that IS NOT an audio/video writing drive, let's say for example a drive for backup, samples, whatever, then you should put your swap file on it. If you are setting up the drive for the first time, make the first (outermost partition which is the fastest physical access) reserved for your swap file. A good rule is 2x your ram. So a 512MB Ram system should have a 1.1GB FIXED swap file formated with 32k clusters. You'll see a good boost since now as your drives write data they can simultaneously read from the swap. If you can't set up the drive fresh, it still pays to put the swap file on it anyway.
Note:
Having a separate partition for swap file set up on a slower hard drive would still be faster than having it on a faster hard drive that contains the O/S (presumably C:\Windows).
Having the swap file on a different partition than the O/S (presumably C:\Windows), but still on the same physical drive does not increase performance:cry:
Okay so what's all this about two swap files:confused:
By default at setup Windows puts the swap file in C:\Windows. If you change the swap file location at that point then the original, unused swap file in C:\Windows "sticks behind". No damage to the system but another file that the O/S has to "read around". If you add that new drive later and decide to create a swap file on it, the old swap file and it's resident data just lays there like a dead log and you can't delete it from Windows Gui :mad:
To remove the old swap file ONLY after you have successfully installed the new swap file:
Reboot into pure dos (hit f8 and choose command prompt only) and type:
C:\>Deltree /y C:\Windows\386.swp
hit enter and reboot
:thumb: