Creating discrete pagefile volume increases system performance

When building a server, an administrator should leave enough empty disk space to create a separate volume for the swap file. With no other files, this can be a dynamic pagefile, shrinking and growing as needed. If crash log analysis is important, a small fixed size swap file on the boot partition can be added by the admin.

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