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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Problem with SWAPPER.DAT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.175821.11467@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:58:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov10.175821.11467
- References: <JEFF.92Nov9101408@claw.clearpoint.com>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <JEFF.92Nov9101408@claw.clearpoint.com> jeff@claw.clearpoint.com writes:
- >I have had problems running out of memory when running (about) 5
- >processes. I looked at the size of the SWAPPER.DAT file. The size
- >never changed from 2097152 (bytes). Okay, I have seen advise here
- >saying that if the SWAPPER.DAT grows, but will not shrink, boot off
- >floppy and delete it. My problem is not quite the same (it doesn't
- >grow or shrink), but I figured that I would try it.
- >I booted from floppy and deleted the C:\OS2\SWAPPER.DAT file. I
- >rebooted. I checked the size of the newly created SWAPPER.DAT file
- >and found it to be 2097152. I ran a few programs and got a memory
- >warning. The size of SWAPPER.DAT had not changed!
- >What do I need to do to get this to work right?????
-
- Is the hard disk full (or nearly full)? SWAPPER.DAT will not
- completely fill the hard disk -- it will fill it only up to the point
- specified in the SWAPPATH line in CONFIG.SYS (see the online Command
- Reference for details).
-
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