re: swap file question curious about size?
Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 11:26 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
If you do a lot of gaming and see the disk drive led coming on a lot while you
are doing it. There there is a small performance benefit to switching to a fixed
swap file. But there are several thing you have to do to make this work well. First
you would want to set the minimum swapfile size to at least 25% larger than the largest
you ever see your current swap file grow to. A size of 128MB would be a good place
to start. If you see that getting bigger while playing games, bump the minimum size
up about 25% over that largest value you see. Do not set the maximum size, let Windows
ME manage that in the special cases that it need more virtual memory.
The second thing you have to do to get the full advantage of a fixed swap file,
is to DeFrag it and move it to the front of the disk drive. Windows ME Defrag will
not do either for you. If you have a second bootable disk drive, you can boot from
it and defrag the first drive and that will defrag the swapfile but not move it to
the front of the disk. There are several DEFRAG utilities, like the one that comes
with Nortons utilities that will defrag your swapfile and move it if it is fixed.
(I am sure MAC will jump in here and suggest a few defrag programs that will do this
for you.)
It all really depends on how much RAM you have in your system. If you have 512MB
to 1GB then the swap file is seldom used, even in most games. Your current swapfile
size does not suggest you that much memory so it is getting used. If you only have
128MB or less, then a fixed swapfile, defraged and moved to the front of the disk
drive would help some.
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| | | | | | | | | re: (Cam: Fri, Jul 16, 2004, 3:24 pm) |
| | | | | | | | | | re: re: (WhitPhil: Fri, Jul 16, 2004, 4:02 pm) |
| | | | | | | | | |  | RE (Cam: Sat, Jul 17, 2004, 1:42 am) |
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