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Paul:

Having your swap on an NTFS drive will also make a big difference for
NT in general!

-Rich

Paul Furbacher wrote:
> 
> Mark X. Yang wrote:
> 
> > I am developing on NT4.0 system with 96M RAM and 200MHZ Pentium CPU.
> >...JB takes a lot of more memory than I expected. Here is an example:
> >[...]
> 
> Actually, all the good Java dev tools take up quite a bit of RAM, and
> disk swap space.
> 
> With NT, 96 mb RAM is just about the functional minimum since
> NT uses quite a bit itself.  But beyond this, you really have
> to be serious about setting aside a good chunk of disk space
> for your swap file.  Once I set mine to 300 MB, things became
> quite nice.  Why not just get a cheap 2-gig drive, partition it
> in half, and devote all of the second partition to swap space?
> (Oh, maybe I'm too used to these SCSI drives, where you can just
> keep adding them....  Must be my Mac heritage.)
> 
> However, it will make all the difference.
> 
> Paul Furbacher

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