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- From: su0911@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (David Salzberg)
- Subject: Re: OS2 swapping still sick?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.132413.5780@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>
- Keywords: swap, swapper.dat,growing,slow system
- Sender: usenet@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu (Mr News)
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- Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
- References: <unruh.713944113@physics.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 13:24:13 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <unruh.713944113@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
- > I have OS2 on a 486-33-8Meg, 130Meg Fujitsu IDE hard drive.
- > Lately the system has been getting slow, with a
- > tremendous amount of disk activity going on even when there was nothing
- > going on- eg only the desktop open, and I then open an OS2 window. The
- > swapper.dat file had grown to over 14MB It dropped to 12, but stuck
- > there, and the system had become slow. I dual booted Dos, and erased
- > the huge swapper.dat file. OS2 is back to its old form now.
- > Yes I have installed the kernel patch. Do others also find that the
- > swapping still leaves something to be desired?
- >Bill Unruh
- >unruh@physics.ubc.ca
- >
-
- I have a Zeos 386sx-16, 8 meg (4 mother, 4 bus), 85 Mb seagate IDE drive,
- and I have the same problem. (More or less). If I run a windows program
- and then retrun to the WPS, my swapper file is huge. When I restart the
- machine, though, the swapper file is small. It seams that the swapper file
- only grows bewteen reboots -- it doesn't shrink. My solution was to by two
- more MB ram, which I will install today or tomorrow. I might also try to
- disable swapping.
-
- BTW, I am running the 6/17/92 kernal patch.
-
- David Salzberg
-
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