SSD and swap

[flip]

I'm am fixing to buy a 256 ssd and slave it for FSX/Prepar3d and assorted programs. The OS will be mostly bare on a 128 gig ssd. Swap on OS or same drive as P3D?

[vision]

I would put the swap on whatever drive isn't being used to write temp files.

[flip]

Ok, that makes sense. More overhead with temp files than swap I imagine, so I guess best is just to install and keep it simple with memory as it is today.

[Krom]

If you are using the swap file in the first place, you need more memory. It is cheap and getting cheaper, think about upgrading that while you are at it. I have 16 GB of memory and overrode the default swap file size down to 1 GB and it basically never gets used.

[flip]

I have about 8 gig, but I'm trying to account for the FSX's uniqueness too. I'm pretty sure a swap is required though I'm not sure. Surely they have optimized P3D of that burden but I'm catering to the lowest common denominator too.

[Krom]

Yeah, depends on the OS. I have mine set to 1 GB because certain recovery and debugging features of windows require at least that much swap space to function even if it isn't actively used.

[flip]

That's what I'll do then.

[fliptw]

I have it set to system managed with 8 GB and the swap file is sitting at 1.25 GB.