vmware workstation is beating up my disk!

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/16/07, Duncan Clark <duncyc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, January 16, 2007 16:44, John Bowden wrote:
> > You will find that windoz will default to a swap file 1.5 times the real
> > RAM, and will swap things in and out on a regular basis. Its memory
> > management is still very crude compared to a nix o/s. As well as
> > indexing check to see if any anti virus or mallware cleaners are
> > running. Also if you have m$ office it also has an index service.
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> Also, as the swap file in in the same partition as userdata usually, if
> the hard disk is near full when Windows decides to enlarge the partition,
> you may end up with a fragmented swap file, which could do extreme wear on
> the hard disk.  Have you tried a boot-time defragmenting tool?
> - -Duncan

such as?


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