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How large the swap file should I tell XP to allocate? With 1 GB memory. XP suggests some 1300MB. Should it really be so mcuh?
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Yep. Windows uses roughly Memory * 1.5 for the swap file, and might adjust it up or down. Just let Windows manage it, no need to fiddle.
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XP will 1643MB. That means I can't use 1.5 gig of HD. Some how unwillingly.Comment
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Also have 1gig of ram and I fixed the swap at 512 (min/max) and been happy with it.
Guess letting Windows manage it would be the best thing though we're talking about over a gig of swap file here
Last edited by Admiral; 23 July 2003, 08:22.Comment
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You can feel free to change it.
Just don't complain when some program goons up as a result.
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Only program/game that gooned up on me was Haegemonia: Legions of Iron. After roughly 5 hours of play it kicked to the desktop without ending the program, windows telling me it ran out of virtual memory and it's creating more.
Clicked back on the minimized program and played for another hour or so.Comment
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I've got 1.5 gig of ram and had set the swap file to max out at 500mb. XP ignored it and made it larger anyway under load. So increased it to a max of 800mb and it still complained.
In the end I let it manage the swapfile itself.Comment
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I got 1GB of RAM in my primary system, and I have the swapfile set to 1GB (min/max). So far no problems and XP has not tried to increase it because it needed more. So I guess its a crapshoot as to what you need to set it to.
From what I'm seeing here, it sounds more like set it, and use it, if XP feels you need more, it will tell you so, and use more. You can always increase the permanent size later.Go Bunny GO!
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I allowed XP to manage it and it set 230MB or something. The size is OK, but I'm worrying about fragmentation.Comment
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If fragmentation really worries you, you can use a defragger.
Or you can set it to delete and recreate the swapfile every time you reboot.
Gpar_The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!
I'm the least you could do
If only life were as easy as you
I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
If only life were as easy as you
I would still get screwedComment
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Use pagedefrag from sysinternals.com
It's free and it does the job.
The defragers: there's Diskeeper, which Gurm will shoot down based on religious prejudice (IMO it's fine, as long as you don't have it on set it and forget it).
And there's another thingy that Gurm will tell you about.Comment
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