Rick Mann wrote:
> Question:
>
> I've got 64 Megs of RAM on my system and it rarely hits the Hard Drive,
> other than when initially loading programs to RAM, or clearing the
> c:\windows\temp directory after an installation.
>
> Why would I possibly need a 128 MB Swap File?
>
> Rick Mann
>
> > A recent article in PC World (3/98) on Win'95 specifies a swap file
> size
> >of approx 3 times the amount of RAM on the system. An example of 32Mb was
> >given in the article and suggested that a 100MB swap file would do it.
I had 64MB on my system at home and I never heard the drive being accessed
except at boot up. Left the swap file alone since don't think I'll get any
better performance by specifying the size. Now I got 128MB and I don't think
that Win95 even bothers with the swap file anymore.
Jose
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