Swap File part 2

[Guest]

I have already posted a similarquestion but have a different take.

My company is looking at creating a standard build for our 2000 servers. We have been debating on whether or not we should put our swap file on a seperate partition from our Data volume. Our current config looks like this.

C:sys
Data
F:swap


we are looking at this now for our config:
C:SYS
D: Data and SWAP

Servers are configured with RAID 5 and a hotspare. We partition our drives with one extended partition and then logical drives for both the data volume and swap volume.

Can a swap file on a windows 2000 server be fragmented and become unstable if it is on a volume with other data?

 

[Consultant]

repost-
actually, unless the swap file resides on a separate physical disk, you are
not gonna see any real performance gains

I have already posted a similarquestion but have a different take.

My company is looking at creating a standard build for our 2000 servers.

We have been debating on whether or not we should put our swap file on a
seperate partition from our Data volume. Our current config looks like this.

C:sys
Data
F:swap


we are looking at this now for our config:
C:SYS
D: Data and SWAP

Servers are configured with RAID 5 and a hotspare. We partition our drives

with one extended partition and then logical drives for both the data volume
and swap volume.

Can a swap file on a windows 2000 server be fragmented and become unstable

if it is on a volume with other data?

 

[Jlmc]

Being that the swap file is on the same physical disk as everything else
leave it on the C: Partition and have your programs and data on the D:

I have already posted a similarquestion but have a different take.

My company is looking at creating a standard build for our 2000 servers.

We have been debating on whether or not we should put our swap file on a
seperate partition from our Data volume. Our current config looks like this.

C:sys
Data
F:swap


we are looking at this now for our config:
C:SYS
D: Data and SWAP

Servers are configured with RAID 5 and a hotspare. We partition our drives

with one extended partition and then logical drives for both the data volume
and swap volume.

Can a swap file on a windows 2000 server be fragmented and become unstable

if it is on a volume with other data?