On Apr 16, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Felix wrote:
I'm also confused as to why some say the swap file can be placed in a partition as small as less than 1 GB while others swear it grows and needs as much as 10GB. Also, when you check memory usage in the Process Viewer, why is VM something like 3.5 GB? Does that mean that that much of the startup volume is being used as Virtual Memory? That would also explain why so little room is left on the startup volume I guess.
Whether it's music or video, the "swap" file needs sufficient real space to hold the project. If you're working with a project that needs 10 or 20 GB of space for rendering (video editing, renedering, non loss audio codecs, a lot of TIFF images, etc.) and the HD you're using only has 4GB available. It won't work. Different programs have different ways of "gagging" , but you'll either get an out of memory/space error, a freeze or a crash.
You do not have to allocate space to a swap file. Providing there is room, it will adjust itself to each project as needed. In the case of nearly full main HD, but an additional drive with lots of room? Putting the swap file on the second drive, is a way to keep things working smoothly.
Jack Russell
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