>How full can one get a hard drive before the
>Win95 swap file starts to give problems? The
>drive is a 1.33GB and there's 620MB free space
>on it now. It's a Toshiba 133MHz laptop with
>32Mb RAM, running FAT32 with 1,024 bytes in
>each allocation unit.

Chances are, you're going to get a lot of ideas
and suggestions on this one.  The last time this
was brought up to the crew, several had suggested,
pending you wanted to do this, was to partition
the drive and make the 2nd partition the size of
your memory x 2.5 (80 mb in your case), then go
into Windows and choose that drive for the swap
file, making sure to change the minimum to be the
same size.

The biggest advantage would be that you would
eliminate swap file fragmentation seeing as it
would be on it's own dedicated drive.

I've been doing this with all of our new machines
that I get into work, and am also doing it on the
ones that I am converting over to Win 95.  It has
made a HUGE difference.

Not that you are going to want to redo your
entire hard drive, but it's certainly something
to keep in mind.  If anything, optimize your hard
drive (delete temp files, scandisk, defrag) then
set your swap file so that you decide and then
use 80 - 100 mb of space and leave it that way.

Best of luck!
Lance Kephart
Kephart's Korner
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/vista/7192




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