>Yeah, I have visited several NT FAQ'S and gleaned much from them, not to mention Windows NT mag. One thing I normally do, is use a seperate FAT partition for the pagefile. It is supposed to be faster because it FAT doesn't have the overhead of NTFS for security, cals, etc. I set the beginning and ending size the same (which is usually twice the size of available ram). This is supposed to keep from corrupting the pagefile.
Look at the FAQ on Saville's site - about as good as it gets.
Pagefile performance is an interesting topic; having a separate logical partition on the same physical drive as the boot partition actually can hurt performance, because there is a requirement to have a minimal (~2MB) swap file on the boot partition or the reigstry may have trouble being grown. Multiple page files on multiple physical devices improves performance measurably. So does making the pagefiles fixed size, allocated as close to immediately following formatting as humanly possible to minimize fragmentation. I find that NTFS offers too much for me to give it up for a relatively small boost in pagefile performance; If you've lots of small processes that are being paged in and out, FAT can hurt you, since anything but a forward seek is very expensive.
Another site is
www.ntsystems.com, formerly Windows NT Systems magazine, now Windows Systems (in recognition of Win2K's entry into the arena; the site stayed.) The
Inside the Box column did a bang-up job of explaining the WSH in monthly columsn from mid-1998 until last month, and the articles can be accessed at the site for free. The magazine's focus is what MS calls mid-size to Enterprise environments; ads in the front are for Tivoli and other large site tools, and the back is full of MCSE training programs, videos, as well as smaller, niche tools for the server environment. The articles have very little fluff; they had serious coverage of things like power protection, fault tolerance, tape systems, network architectures and the like. The bulk of the magazine can be accessed on-line for free.
