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From: billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
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Subject: Re: Virtual 2.0 and DiskExpress
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Date: 4 Sep 90 15:49:51 GMT
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In article <11594@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> weesh@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Darweesh) writes:
>Using Disk Express II and Virtual would be bad if you optimized the swapfile
>while using virtual.  You could however, partition your hard drive and
>have one partition for your swapfile only (this may slightly reduce your
>swapping speed though).
>
>From personal experience-I tried using DiskExpress II and Virtual (with the
>swap file on another partition) and may computer froze.  No damage was done,
>but it was obvious that there were going to be some problems although I
>haven't called either software company to discuss the problem.

Disk Express II takes pains to make sure it doesn't move your swapfile.  So,
in theory, it should work fine.  I've had version 2.04 running fine under
virtual, but I haven't run virtual much lately, so most of the time, I'm
running it without virtual.

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