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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: <1992Nov22.225527.2850@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <Bxt11G.14z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov21.184401.14447@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <By3x1M.2w0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:55:27 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:
- >colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt) writes:
- >>sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:
-
- >However, if you change the PageOverCommit var.
- >to a value > 4, you change the Max. Recommended Size and can get even
- >bigger swapfiles.
-
-
- This has all been very interesting, but in my
- journeys I have come to believe that the point
- of maxing out the swapfile is moot; you can
- create a monster swapfile but you'll run out of
- System Resources before the swapfile gets full.
- (At least this is what happened last night when I
- experimented with various sizes.)
-
- So I guess Windows IS smarter than I am when
- recommending swapfile sizes!
-
- Now I ask:
-
- Are system resources allocated to instances of an
- application, or both instances and contents of
- running applications.
-
- That is, if one copy of Excel is running with no
- active document, does it take up the same amount
- of resources as another copy of Excel running with
- a large active document?
-
- It would appear that the two copies of Excel require
- different amounts of MEMORY, but do they require different
- amounts of SRs also?
-
- Following this line of reasoning, it seems that it
- would only be a desktop cluttered with memory-hungry,
- resource-wise applications that would benefit from a
- gigantic swapfile.
-
- How well does this fit?
-
-
- --
- Andrew
- Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
- --
-