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- From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows NT vs OS/2: Does NT worth the wait?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.140517.8391@cam-orl.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 14:05:17 GMT
- References: <79270@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1993Jan7.151207.16053@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan7.175913.22752@cam-orl.co.uk> <1993Jan8.184328.19074@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- In article <1993Jan8.184328.19074@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>, stoen@katana.pcpd.hou.compaq.com (Rick Stoen) writes:
- |> The following is part of a chkdsk from a machine running the October
- |> beta release. The installation was straight from the CD onto a blank
- |> NTFS partition.
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- Did you installed the SDK? We were talking about the *OS* alone.
-
- |> 111722 kilobytes total disk space.
- |> 76776 kilobytes in 541 user files.
- |>
- |> The virtual memory screen reports the minimum swap file size to be 43
- |> meg and the maximum is 93 meg. BTW the machine has 32M of physical RAM
- |> installed.
-
- Wow! Is the "Minimum Allowed" really 43Meg? If so, NT is inconsistent about
- it's memory usage, since my 20Meg machine has a Minimum Allowed of only 2Meg.
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- But wait a minute! If the disk space is 111722 (i.e. 109Meg) and the maximum
- swap size is 93Meg, the OS *can't* take more than 16Meg!!!
-
- If 111722 is the *free* space, I don't understand why the maximum swap is only
- 93Meg. My figures are 147922 and 144Meg respectivly, i.e. you can use all the
- free space for swap.
-
- I'm very confused!
-