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- From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
- Subject: Re: summary of responses on how to make VM size bigger
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.184401.14447@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:44:01 GMT
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- sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:
-
- >1) When you have enough Hard Drive space, Windows reccomends a swapfile size
- >and will not use a swapfile greater than four times the size of free memory
- >that you have after loading Windows.
-
- What is the rationale for this 4x factor?
-
- A related question is this:
-
- In an attempt to set up a Permanent Swapfile LARGER THAN
- the Recommended Size, I got a dialog that said something
- like:
- "Windows will not use a swapfile larger than the
- Maximum Recommended Size. Do you wish to create
- one anyway?"
-
- What the hell does this mean?
-
- A) "Sure, kid, go ahead and create as big a swapfile
- as your disk space will allow, but I'm not going
- to use any more of it than I said I would."
-
- B) "The Maximum Recommended Size is a limit on how
- much disk space will be used for the permanent
- swapfile. Windows will not attempt to use more
- disk space than you specify.
-
- IFF the true and correct answer is (A), then do I take it
- to be also true and correct that it is the 4x factor that
- makes this so? Will changing the PageOverCommit variable
- allow one to specify a larger permanent swapfile, AND have
- ALL of it utilized?
-
- Things that make you go hmmmm.
-
-
- --
- Andrew
- Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
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