Windows can run without swap, but you're right, lots of apps cant. Then
there's photoshop, and others like it, that due to being ported from a mac
has int's own swap ("scratchdisk") code, which of course ignores the
windows swap settings.
Gfunk
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [plex86] just a thought
> > Actually, I'm not at all sure you are right about Windows either.
>
> Last I wrote code for Windows, several programs failed when you turn off
> swap because you can specifically request storage (IIRC) from the kernel
> that is "swappable" storage. You could have half a gig of RAM and have
> programs fail if you turned off swap.
>
> It's been a while since I've written anything on that level for win32, so
> perhaps the semantics have changed, but I'd be leery of stating you can
get
> away without swap without actually trying it.
>
> Anyone up for a ten minute trial?
>
> Ray
>
>
