How Big are you SWAP files?

How Big are you SWAP files?

  • Windows Does it

    Votes: 14 31.8%

  • 256

    Votes: 8 18.2%

  • 384

    Votes: 8 18.2%

  • 512

    Votes: 11 25.0%

  • 1gig

    Votes: 3 6.8%
  • Total voters
    44
I have no idea if it makes much differences since I have 384 MB Ram. It seems that's more than enough memory.
 
128 megs of ram with 150meg swap file on drive C:\
Defragged to be on the outer section..

And it's good enough for me..
All I do is play Counter-Strike, and when the time needs,
i'll just up the swap file size, defrag and play..

doesn't take too long for me to defrag, so it doesn't
bother me..
 
optimized

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384 MBs and 256 MBs of RAM
enough in ME but not in XP...
so I'm going to get 384 MB ram and then I'll up my swap to 512...
 
wow, that's a big swap file for 256 megs... do you find that you have to do that for 9x as well?

i'll ask this here, i'm going to dual boot windows 2000 and ME, is it better to have each OS share the same swap file? or give each it's own? i have plenty of hard drive space, so i don't care if i lose a gig or 2 :D

i saw articles at www.tweak3d.net about how to do that, but is it worth it?

thanks!
 
I've tried many different settings over the years and have found that Win98+ does a pretty good job on it's own.

As for ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1, I find it's definitely not the greatest with games.

Cacheman allows the changing of disk cache size, which is far more important than creating a fixed swap file.

Get Cacheman 4.1 here .

I think Radeon's Ark tamed a few swap files :p
 
I let Windows manage the swapfiles. It usually doesn't get much bigger than around 80 megs. Sometimes when playing games it goes up to about 130 megs but it drops to about 50 when I quit the game.
 
win ME, 512Mb of RAM, swapfile conservative usage on, min 0 max 512MB, swap file size 0 bytes.

If I go back to letting Windows manage v mem, does it use the location I specified under custom settings or does it use the windows partition for the swap file?
 
I have 416mb of RAM, and I let Win2k do whatever it wants with the swap file.

I used to care more about swap file settings, but these days with RAM soooooooooooo cheap as it is, I say throw in what you can afford and don't worry bout it. The more the better.
 
Let windows specify it for you if you have 128mb or ram and over.
Maybe increasing the size of it could help a little if you have under 128mb of ram.
 
if you specify the swap file size, and use norton speed disk to defrag your hard drive, it will put the swap drive at the outer most tracks of the hard drive (fastest) and defragment it. the problem with letting windows change the size all the time is that it becomes fragmented. which can slow it down a bit. but you'd get a lot better performance with more ram
 
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