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sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:

>1) When you have enough Hard Drive space, Windows reccomends a swapfile size
>and will not use a swapfile greater than four times the size of free memory
>that you have after loading Windows.

What is the rationale for this 4x factor?

A related question is this:

In an attempt to set up a Permanent Swapfile LARGER THAN
the Recommended Size, I got a dialog that said something
like: 
	"Windows will not use a swapfile larger than the
	Maximum Recommended Size.  Do you wish to create 
	one anyway?"

What the hell does this mean?

	A) "Sure, kid, go ahead and create as big a swapfile
	   as your disk space will allow, but I'm not going
	   to use any more of it than I said I would."

	B) "The Maximum Recommended Size is a limit on how
	   much disk space will be used for the permanent 
	   swapfile.  Windows will not attempt to use more 
	   disk space than you specify.

IFF the true and correct answer is (A), then do I take it
to be also true and correct that it is the 4x factor that
makes this so?  Will changing the PageOverCommit variable
allow one to specify a larger permanent swapfile, AND have
ALL of it utilized?

Things that make you go hmmmm.


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Andrew          
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