re: swap file question curious about size?
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 5:58 am
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Posted by Cam
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I never had any success moving the swap-file to the beginning of the C: drive. Too
many registry changes or whatever. Within a few days it would move back down the
drive again!
It was only when I put the swap-file on another drive that it stayed all the time
at the front of the drive, where I put it.
Mac
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On Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 11:26 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
> 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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