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- From: sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth)
- Subject: Re: summary of responses on how to make VM size bigger
- References: <Bxt11G.14z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov21.184401.14447@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:34:32 GMT
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- colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- Yep, that's exactly what I meant. You can create a bigger file but it
- doesn't use any more of it. However, if you change the PageOverCommit var.
- to a value > 4, you change the Max. Recommended Size and can get even
- bigger swapfiles.
-
- As for the reason that the default value is 4, you would have to ask the
- MS gods. My personal guess would be that they rolled a dice. :)
-
- >Things that make you go hmmmm.
-
- They certainly do.
-
- >--
- >Andrew
- >Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
- >--
-
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- Sanjay Sheth Research is what I'm doing when
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