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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!mrbill
- From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
- Subject: Re: Why does 8Mb RAM mean swapping?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.184125.18592@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <977@pacs.pha.pa.us>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:41:25 GMT
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- In article <977@pacs.pha.pa.us> noyles@pacs.pha.pa.us ( Juan Noyles) writes:
- >Can someone who understands these things tell me why I get so much swapping
- >in OS/2 with 8Mb RAM? I'm using a 33MHz 80386.
- >
- > [stuff deleted]
- >
- >Email: noyles@pacs.pha.pa.us --- juan@noyles.pha.pa.us
-
-
- I too am disappointed with the amount of disk thrashing OS/2 causes on my
- 386-40 8M system. I tried turning off swapping, but the system can't even
- start without a swap file. It just hangs while trying to load the WPS.
- You can improve things somewhat by telling OS/2 to use a larger swapfile than
- the default, but there's still way too much disk activity.
-
- Regards
-
- Bill
- mrbill@leland.stanford.edu
-