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- From: vaarisko@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Re: Swap File Size & Deleting a file (was: Small..HD Memory!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.111511.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- References: <1992Nov17.213411.22669@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov18.161642.20663@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:15:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.161642.20663@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- > In <1992Nov17.213411.22669@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:
- >
- >>Hello, once again.
- >
- >>Can somebody make some recomendations on swap files?
- >>Particularly, Permanent Vs. Temporary. And how big do you
- >>really need it? (Sure they rec. 8.16M, but is it neccesary?)
- >
- > How big it needs to be depends on how much physical memory you have.
- > I run one of my machines without a swap file at all, which is the best
- > choice if you have enough real memory to not need one. If you do need
- > one, use the Permanent one. It will always be faster than the
- > Temporary.
-
- Also, using a permanent swap file prevents the file (=virtual memory)
- from getting fragmented. Fragmented memory results in errors like
- "This application doesn't have enough memory for it's display" and
- it cannot be used very efficiently.
-
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- // Jouni 'Spence' V{{riskoski //
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