let win2k manage it and leave it alone!

we all know what this post reminds us of, that would be my famous 92 messge post. Now, one question tonight is...if i have 64 MB of RAM, should i zero my swap file, or leave it windows managing or specify, if specify is yes, then how much min/max

This is the best reply your gonna get mage. Get a swap file monitoring program or you can use that monitoring program that 9x uses. Have it monitor your swap file while you do your normal everyday stuff and then set your swap file to whatever it says. If you don't wanna wait forever and a half to monitor your swap file just load up games like Unreal Tournament and Ultima Ascension and then check the swap file usage monitor. Whatever it says then, then set your swap file to that. NT is better to get a good idea of how much ram you should buy or how much ram is being taken up because all I have to do is look in Task Manager and there is my Peak.

GOOOD POINT!!!!!! still finding other threads funny lol lol.....
 

Quote:Originally posted by DosFreak:I'm going to say something just to keep this funny lil' thread going. We all know that Windows needs a swap file and that if you let Windows manage the swap file that it will constantly shrink and grow. What some of us may not know is that even if you have 8m-768m of ram WINDOWS WILL STILL MAKE A SWAP FILE. Sure the swap file may be only a couple of megs but the swap file is still there. NOW I can see if you have an ungodly amount of memory and if you carefully monitor your swap file using swap file monitoring programs and if you notice that you almost never swap to the disk because of your ungodly amount of ram. Then what the hell stick that swap file on your RAM drive. Heck...if ya think about it it'll also be more secure, since your swap file will not be left behind for sneaks like me to snoop through.
 

I came across this forum while looking for tweaks for win2k I recently installed and couldn't believe it when i saw
"Man what are all these people doing with these hi end systems when they dont know the basics, dont buy a ferrari if u cant f-ing drive."
What is you problem? you are such a fool that i had to reply. So what if a guy knows nothing abt computers, i don't know ****e abt computers but if i want a dam p3 800mhz coppermine i will buy it and if you don't like it go suck an egg.
Also if a guy posts a question and says somthing dumb you don't have to make a fool of him, the people who do that the most are the ones who got laughed at in school and now are venting their fustration on others behind a monitor and to you i send out a big fat HA!

OK, this may be right or this may be wrong but here is how I set mine.
 
Reboot my computer and then use it normally for about an hour or so. Then open up the task manager and go to the performance tab. Look at the “Commit Charge” section and see what the peak says. You can lower the size until the peak is a little closer to the limit. The peak is the most you have used in this session. There are no exact numbers to use, you just have to adjust it to your own use. If your peak never gets close to your limit then you can probably get by with out a swap file. If you have a small swap file and your system runs out of memory then just up your swap file I bit. But use the task manager numbers to go by.
 
I have 288 megs of memory and my swap file is set to 16 meg on a separate hard drive. When I play games (UT) I set my swap to 128 just to be safe.

Sorry if this have already been suggested, but I'm to lazy to read all the preceding posts 8)
A swap file should be size 2x your RAM size. Got that tip from some NT expert - something about how Windows uses the swap file

Actually Jehova, its 2.5 x RAM = PagefileSize(swapfile)