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The June issue of Maximum PC magazine, http://www.maximumpc.com, has an
article titled "Clean Start" and within that article there is a paragraph on
page 47 on sizing the swapfile. ""...go back to the Virtual Memory settings
page and set the minimum and maximum size to two times the amount of system
RAM. Choose the same size for both settings, but don't exceed 256MB.
Reboot again. Setting a maximum and minimum swap file size keeps Windows
from constantly resizing your swap file, which causes it to get terribly
fragmented in a very short period of time."
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: David Fenstemaker <dfens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: SP5 Stability Update
> At 6:51 AM -0700 6/1/00, David Fenstemaker wrote:
>
> >Just to let the list know, I was contacted by Omega, and the first
> >suggestion was to increase the size of my swap file, and make it
> >static rather than managed by windows. My swap is now set to 2048 MB,
> >and this has stopped the crashes. Realtime performance has been very
> >stable.
>
> That swap size seems extremely large. Is this the value they suggested?
>
> It would seem that if a static swap file improves stability, this would
indicate that the memory allocation code has bugs - the same kind of bugs
that create memory leaks.
>
> This is somewhat surprising since there are a lot of tools available to
check for such memory allocation errors.
>
> Bob Fulks
>
>
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