Having been given 64 MB of ram, I now have 128 MB in my Win95 machine. I
almost never have more than 40-60 megs in use, and even that is rare.
Why would I not gain anything from a 32meg ram drive for my swap
partition?



John Chin wrote:
>
> At 02:24 PM 3/4/1998 SSgt Rick Mann wrote:
> > . . .
> >The intention of a Windows95 Swap File it to use space on your Hard Disk as
> >"Virtual Memory" to augment actual memory on your system.
> >
> >Trying to run your swap file on a RAMDISK totally defeats the purpose of the
> >Swap File being used as "Virtual Memory".
> >
> >However, for someone not being familiar with the intention of a Windows95
> >Swap File, that's a pretty crafty idea.....trust me though, you don't wanna
> >try it.
>
> Well, if you can afford to install more RAM than your Windows OS can
> access, it might be worth the old college try.  <g>
>
> Also note that Windows really wants to use a swap file, whether
> it needs to or not.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Chin

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