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 |--------------------------------------------------------| Daniel Mullings MTSC - Advisory Systems Engineer GTE Data Services Irving, Texas [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------| -----Original Message----- From: Ultra [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:20 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://nospin.com