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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
  4. Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.211403.29036@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 6 Jan 93 21:14:03 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan4.185513.15544@apgea.army.mil> <Gary.Woodman.905.726283143@anu.edu.au> <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com> cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:
  14. >Actually, you can control it's existence by the MEMMAN parameter. If you make
  15. >it NOSWAP, it will only use the real memory in your system. However, if you
  16. >run out of memory, you're in trouble. Since most systems use the swapper (even
  17. >mine with 14Mb), you can run out of room real quick.
  18.  
  19. I'd recommend not using NOSWAP unless you have a MINIMUM of 20MB of
  20. memory.  I have 8MB of RAM, and my swapfile typically varies between
  21. 6MB and 10MB, occasionally spiking to 12MB.  This is having DINFO,
  22. CLOCK, ALARMS, Daily Planner, a windowed session, GNU-Emacs, GCC/2,
  23. and the Tooklit PM reference open and running at once.
  24.  
  25. I'm running OS/2 2.0 at service level XR-6055.
  26. -- 
  27.   |)  David Charlap          | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
  28.  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
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