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In article <3olrkh$5...@news.infoserve.net>, sl...@unix.infoserve.net (Slang) writes:
>
> How will increasing the swap file make OS/2 faster,wouldn't it just
> increase the amount of memory available as a swap file and therefore
> allow you to open a larger program or graphics file?I don't see how it
> would increase the speed.
>
The OS/2 paging system will dynamically size the swap file. When people
talk about increasing the swap file size, they are really talking about
increasing the initial size. This helps performance in three ways:
1: If the swap file is 'big enough', then OS/2 never has to spend extra
   time increasing its size.
2: If the swap file is 'big enough', then OS/2 was probably able to
   make it contiguous, especially if it was on an HPFS partition, so
   head movement when swapping is minimized.
3: If the swap file never had to be increased, then OS/2 won't have to
   spend any time decreasing it when the memory load is reduced.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)