At 12:31 AM 10/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Pippi,
>
>More that it needs?? Doesn't Windows usually want everything :-)
>
>I don't follow you on a minimum size. How is that better?
>
>Chad Fernandez
It's not windows that may want more so much as any applications you run
which may be memory intensive. A long document, a large graphic, a heavy
game.
Minimum size means that the swap file, win386.swp, will never take less
than that amount of space on your drive even if it is empty. this will
result in drive full messages should you fill the rest of the drive with
files without your having lost your swap file. Without the swap file you
cannot run anything much more than your system, some times not even
that. In school we played with our swap files and found that it was
possible to run without one but any application which required much memory
would crash and you couldn't do much.
The recommended minimum swap file size is approximately double your RAM but
still, if you are doing something, like writing a large book, you may need
more than that and then windows will write the portions of the document
several pages away from your working place into the swap as it couldn't
hold it in RAM.
I have a friend who works with large and complex graphics files and he has
256MB of RAM and it's just enough on his 500mhz computer to allow him to
work without having to wait all the time when he's doing basic operations
on those files.
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