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We are having troubles with the swapper.dat file on OS/2.  We are
running ver. 2.11.  We would like to move the file to the D: partition
of the hard drive.  Where is this specified?  Only 100 meg partition on
the C: drive, and we're running out of room.

TIA,
  Chris Meinders and Devlin Ackerman

Make the last value larger than the 2048 kB default, so the system will
allocate more contiguous space at boot.

ahf

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:We are having troubles with the swapper.dat file on OS/2.  We are
:running ver. 2.11.  We would like to move the file to the D: partition
:of the hard drive.  Where is this specified?

 It's set by a statement in your config.sys. Type "help swappath" at a
command prompt. Be sure to back up your config.sys before altering it.

: Only 100 meg partition on
:the C: drive, and we're running out of room.

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Quote:>We are having troubles with the swapper.dat file on OS/2.  We are
>running ver. 2.11.  We would like to move the file to the D: partition
>of the hard drive.  Where is this specified?  Only 100 meg partition on
>the C: drive, and we're running out of room.

Quote:>We are having troubles with the swapper.dat file on OS/2.  We are
>running ver. 2.11.  We would like to move the file to the D: partition
>of the hard drive.  Where is this specified?  Only 100 meg partition on
>the C: drive, and we're running out of room.

>TIA,
>  Chris Meinders and Devlin Ackerman

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||We are having troubles with the swapper.dat file on OS/2.  We are
||running ver. 2.11.  We would like to move the file to the D: partition
||of the hard drive.  Where is this specified?  Only 100 meg partition on
||the C: drive, and we're running out of room.
||
||TIA,
||      Chris Meinders and Devlin Ackerman
|
|Look for this line in the config.sys SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 2048
|Change it to d:\ 2048 2048  Yr #'s may be a bit different depending on how much
|RAM yr system has.  If the swap file is consistantly growing larger than 20M, you may
|want to make the 2nd # larger than the default.
|Regards,
|Gord Schindler

That 2048 in the default is not 20 MB, it's 2 MB - a number too small for any
reasonable OS/2 installation. Keep an eye on the max size your swap file grows
to under normal use, then make that second figure that much (in KB) plus 10-20%.
Your system will run _much_ better when it      doesn't have to grow (and more
importantly, shrink) the swapfile just to do normal busines.

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Quote:> Proud Member: Jeff Glatt OS/2 Zealots list, 01-MAR-97!

Find the line in CONFIG.SYS that starts "SWAPPATH=" and change it so it
reads "SWAPPATH=D:\ xxxx yyyy"  xxxx is the minimum free space on the
drive before you get the message that your drive is full, and yyyy is
the initial size of your swapper.dat file.  This number should be at
least as large as the normal size of your swapper.dat when running your
normal load.

For more info, type "HELP SWAPPATH", and it will show you everything you
want to know.

BTW, don't forget to delete SWAPPER.DAT from the C: drive after you
reboot with this change.  
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If a 2nd hard drive is available, you might pick up some speed by putting the swap file on it. Ideally, put the swap file "in the most-used directory of the least-used drive".

Usually the path to the file is specified using SWAPPATH
in your config.sys (well, in Warp 3 it is handled like this,
I don't know if this works with 2.11). My Warp is installed on
drive E:, for example. The swapfile is put in the directory \OS2\SYSTEM:

SWAPPATH=E:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 8192

For example, to move it to drive D: into the directory \SWAPPER
you would have to write

SWAPPATH=D:\SWAPPER 2048 8192

Note that the numbers behind set the size of the file.

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