Comment by vladvasiliu
3 years ago
> Important edge cases (like swap) that databases do really poorly.
Wouldn't it have been possible to not use a one-size-fits all approach? I'm thinking about things like moving the swap to a dedicated partition, like on Linux, and ditto for the other edge cases.
In earlier Windows versions users sometimes had to fiddle with swap file size. Even on newer versions the "System determine size of swap file" may be a default option (don't have a Windows machine nearby right now). Resizing partition is much more cumbersome process than resizing a file.
Come on, you do it like on Unix, you set it to twice the RAM and you're done. Though these days it should probably be smaller, much smaller.