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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