home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm
- From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
- Subject: Re: HUGE swapfile??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.180239.11264@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <1992Sep14.131810.16367@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <BuKwAv.JMn@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Sep14.183142.17751@primerd.prime.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:02:39 GMT
- Lines: 23
-
- In article <1992Sep14.183142.17751@primerd.prime.com> mguyott@eriador.prime.com (M. Guyott) writes:
-
- >You are almost right. What the original poster has found is Windows
- >"permanent" swapfile. This is the only swapfile that is hidden. If you
- >use a "temporary" swapfile then you can see the swapfile name in the
- >root directory of the drive you specified. I believe it has a .swp
- >extension. A permanent swap file is always on your hard disk and insures
- >that Windows will always have this amount of swap space on your disk. A
-
- I actually installed Windows 3.1 again on my machine after I put in
- a 340MB disk, and startlingly, given my 20MB RAM, it seemed quite keen on
- telling me that a swap file of 75MB would be a good idea.
-
- Needless to say, I set it to 12MB and had a good chuckle.
-
- Toodlepip!
- Marc 'em.
-
- --
- storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill University C program run. Run
- Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA Program run! PLEASE!
- "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not." - Yoda
- "Ow!" -J.F.K.~
-