On 27 May 00, at 0:19, Ultra wrote:

> 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?).

  Windows will try to copy stuff out of RAM to the swap file when it
needs the RAM for something else.  Rather than wait until that
happens to determine whether there is room to grow the swap file,
Windows reserves space in the swap file at the point where a process
(could be part of the OS...) says "I need this much RAM".
  One odd result of this is that is the swap file is too small, a
process request for memory may fail with "not enough memory", even
though there is plenty of RAM available and no actual swapping has
yet occurred.

David G

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