Swap File Question !!!!!!!!!
TURNER711
bigger one ? What will it help if I have a Bigger one? I have Win 98 , Thanx
Kevin Lam
T> What is a Swap File ? What does it do ? How can I make my Computer have a
T> bigger one ? What will it help if I have a Bigger one? I have Win 98 , Thanx
A swap file is an area of disk space which Windows will use for virtual
memory. That is, it will pretend that the disk is actually RAM, and when
it needs more system memory than you have, it will start using the disk as
extra RAM to put old programs aside. Of course, this virtual memory is
much, much slower than real RAM.
A bigger swap file just means that you can overload your system with even
more programs before it comes to a grinding halt. If you don't already
know how to work with swap files, you're best just to let Win98 take care
of it. If you really want to, you can adjust settings yourself under the
Control Panel, System, Performance, and click on the little buttons.
I have 64 megs RAM and I'm running with a 150 meg permanent swap file,
which is a step on the modest side but it works fine.
-kL
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Dr. Mordrid
Windows starts running short on memory it writes some memory contents to the
swapfile freeing up resources. The default location of the swapfile is the
boot partition however this can be changed by the user or machine
manufacturer.
The effects of the swapfile to video capturing can be enormous. If you try
to capture to the same drive that the swapfile exists on you WILL drop
frames during a longer capture. Windows will stop the capture while it does
its routine write to the swapfile interrupting the capture. Very annoying.
The way out of this is to never capture to the swapfile drive. This also
means not capturing to another partition on the drive containing Windows.
Video captures should be to a different physical drive entirely.
Another problem related to the swapfile can be how long it takes Windows to
do the reads and writes to it. On a slower machine this can cause the
system to hang momemtarily again causing dropped frames. Resizing the
swapfile takes up most of the time doing this read/write operation.
This can be alleviated by manually setting the swapfiles size from a
variable one to a fixed one. This involves opening the Control Panel/System
program and selecting the Performance tab and clickig on the Virtual Memory
button. Once there choose to manually set up the swapfile. Enter identical
max and min values equal to twice your installed memory in megabytes. When
you go to close out Windows will put up a dire warning but you can ignore it
as long as the values you entered are as directed.
Close your way out and reboot.
Dr. Mordrid
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