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Conservative Swap trick?
Name: Greg Date: February 14, 2000 at 17:14:47 Pacific
Comment:
OK, now I'm confused...I have Win98SE and 128MB RAM. Following all the advice I've read on the net about vcache settings and swap file settings, I have my vcache set at 8MB min and 16 MB max, and my swap file is set to a fixed 192MB. Now I read this trick about Conservative Swap file setting in System.ini.... http://members.aol.com/axcel216/98-4.htm#COSW ...so does this mean I should let Windows determine my vcache and swap file sizes and then just apply this ConservativeSwap trick to System.ini? Or do I still use my own settings, but still apply the System.ini trick? I don't want my swap to fragment, so I still think setting a fixed size is a good idea, but what about vcache? I'd like some opinions on how some of you would configure a machine which has 128MB RAM. Thanks. (I hope this message doesn't get archived out as soon as I post it...)
Name: Avestriel Date: December 29, 2000 at 07:23:10 Pacific
Reply:
Hey this is 10 months old but just in case somebody drops in here from a search engine like I did...
I am setting up an audio recording machine in my home studio. I plan on controling size to 196MB fixed cache and using ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 like the article suggests. There is no reason not to do both.
Summary: use nero burning rom i used it and it works fine...you just have to have the game to do the swap trick or you have to have a mod chip for the game to play...
Summary: C_Legend & KmIeLL I can confirm that the Conservative Swap file tweak does work in W98SE (I've checked that it actually does do something). As for the little bit of swap file you see then WhitPhil exp...
Summary: "I think it's best to set it as 2.5x your RAM. For you that would be 160MB (2.5 * 64)." But then if your machine ever needs more than 224mb of RAM it will be out of memory if the max it set. Replace t...
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