Wanted to throw in my 0.02 worth.
I know this thread was primarily 95/98 swapfiles, but I wanted to drop a
link for those NT'ers looking to tweak their pagefile.
http://arstechnica.com/tweak/nt/pagefile-1.html
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Daniel Mullings
MTSC - Advisory Systems Engineer
GTE Data Services
Irving, Texas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ultra [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] big swap files
Uzi Paz wrote:
> a) I thought that during the OS load up, the swap file is not yet in use,
> because at least at the begining, the RAM is enough.
No matter how much RAM you have, the OS still needs a swap file even it only
requires
a very small one. I don't know why it does so, I guess Bill Gates may know
the reason
(or does he?).
>
>
> b) As I said in my reply to Mark (night distributed after yours depending
> on the approval), the crucial point in my second example (the example
> with the non-fixed size swap file), is the use of a dedicated logical
drive
> (the first of a physical drive) only for the swap file. I cannot see why
the
> problem of fragmentation will occur there - there is only one file in the
> drive.
True, if there is only one file there, there will be no problem at all.
> Let alone the problem of no space for temporary files that might cause
> problems, I believe that windows (in non-fixed size swap file) will know
> not to produce swap file larger than the space it has (on account of
> caching).
Yes, it knows, but if there is no enough space, sometimes windows will
refuse to
work.
Jun Qian
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