Hi Jaxon,
It's stupid to let Windows overtake your HDD and waste space on it. 128MB is quite a lot if you don't use any outstanding apps (recent games/prof apps like Photoshop which need a lot of mem). If you don't use any of these you can even specify 0 as minimal and maybe 128MB as max. My Win98 runs fine on 64MB with 0-128MB swap and I do use sometimes Photoshop and scan images as big as a few 10s of megs. Quake III Arena does make it swap at the beginning but as Quake pushed everything else to the swap space and not running anything else it runs fine.
Morc
It's stupid to let Windows overtake your HDD and waste space on it. 128MB is quite a lot if you don't use any outstanding apps (recent games/prof apps like Photoshop which need a lot of mem). If you don't use any of these you can even specify 0 as minimal and maybe 128MB as max. My Win98 runs fine on 64MB with 0-128MB swap and I do use sometimes Photoshop and scan images as big as a few 10s of megs. Quake III Arena does make it swap at the beginning but as Quake pushed everything else to the swap space and not running anything else it runs fine.
Morc
silverpig
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If you have a nice sized hard drive and can afford 256 megs of space on it, here's what you should do:
1. Restart your computer
2. Before you do anything, defrag your hard drive
3. Restart
4. Set your virtual memory to 256 MB min and 256 MB max
5. Restart
6. Defrag
What this does is it keeps your swap file at one size in one place on your hard drive. If you let windows manage your swap, and let it vary in size, then your disk will become fragmented very quickly.
Even if you only want to spare 128 MB, then set your min and max to 128 MB. The main point is to set your swap to be fixed.
1. Restart your computer
2. Before you do anything, defrag your hard drive
3. Restart
4. Set your virtual memory to 256 MB min and 256 MB max
5. Restart
6. Defrag
What this does is it keeps your swap file at one size in one place on your hard drive. If you let windows manage your swap, and let it vary in size, then your disk will become fragmented very quickly.
Even if you only want to spare 128 MB, then set your min and max to 128 MB. The main point is to set your swap to be fixed.
yoda271828
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When Windows has to change the size of the swap file it reduces performance. So the larger the minimum swap file size, the less Windows will have to screw with it. I suggest that you make the swap file size twice the amount of memory in your computer. So in your case, make the min 256MB.
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