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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.204721.27215@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 20:47:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.185513.15544@apgea.army.mil> <Gary.Woodman.905.726283143@anu.edu.au> <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com> cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:
- >In <Gary.Woodman.905.726283143@anu.edu.au> Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan4.185513.15544@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
- >>>and or control its size/existance?
- >>
- >>No. You cannot do either of these things; OS/2 must have a swapfile, and it
- >>is exactly the size it's required to be.
- >>
- >
- >Actually, you can control it's existence by the MEMMAN parameter. If you make
- >it NOSWAP, it will only use the real memory in your system. However, if you
- >run out of memory, you're in trouble. Since most systems use the swapper (even
- >mine with 14Mb), you can run out of room real quick.
- >
- >I'm running the 2.1 beta and have found it uses less memory and swapper than
- >previous version. This is still a beta, though.
- >
- >Cliff Nadler
- >IBM Federal Systems Company
- >
- >Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
- > IBM Federal Systems Company
-
-
- Well, there reason why I asked the question in the first place is that Windozes
- is a dog with any kind of swap file. With my 486 with 16 megs of ram, windows
- ran ALOT better with the swap file turned off. Hoever, now that I'm an os/2
- 2.0 user, it doesn't seem to be the case but I am always looking for ways
- to improve the performance of my system. (not to mention, disk space!)
-
- ok, the new question is: Does the swap file keep growning? I plan to run it
- 24 hours aday (for my BBS) and I don't want to wake up and see a 30 meg swap
- file!!!
- next question:
- With a 486 DX 33 and 16 megs of ram, normally running only 2 or three applica-
- tions at one time of fewer, mainly dos programs or maybe 1 os/2-windows
- program and a dos based BBS program (telegard); What size of a swap file
- should I expect to see?
- Rob Merritt
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