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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7622)	5/25/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I fixed the sizes of all my page file. Same size for initial and max. Wouldn't profit me otherwise, since I dedicated the partition. Also prevents eventual fragmentation. Sorry, in my earlier answer I didn't answer about disk speed. Yes, disk speed of the paging file is good. I have no real feel for just how much it may mean. Also, it depends on the speed of the disks your applications require and the pattern of access they have. This is far to complicated to make general statements about, that is, it depends too much on the details of exactly what you're doing. Don't bother to explain, I mean on the internal details. You'd have to do a LOT of performance analysis to determine it. Suffice it to say that my approach was to allocate a FAT partition (faster) rather than use my faster disk. Though space and partition considerations were also included in this. Even more important, which is probably THE biggest factor, I put my page file on the drive (yes, drive, not partition) which I expect to have the lowest traffic other than paging. I think that and eliminating fragmentation are probably the two most important considerations. Again, I warn you I'm doing a lot of guesswork here. Take it for what it's worth, which is likely about what you paid for it <g>. Spots