Swap File???

[Guest]

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

My question is, are there any disadvantages or advantages to leaving the swap file on it on partition?

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. Thanks

 

[Bob I]

If you lock min and max to same size and it's on D: before the data is
introduced. I think you should have the same performance you have now or
a little better. Heads don't have to trot across the drive to another
partition to update the swap and locking it down size wise will prevent
framentation.

 

[Consultant]

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

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

My question is, are there any disadvantages or advantages to leaving the swap file on it on partition?

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. Thanks

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

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


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

And a probable performance hit if it's on the same physical drive, but
not the same drive letter as the OS.