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In article <4d0ih0$8nk@steel.interlog.com>, daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes:
|> On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:42:55 GMT, drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin)
|> wrote:
|> 
|> 
|> >
|> >Turn off your swap file and see "How far DON'T you want to go today?"
|> >
|> >If I had a large enough swap HDD, I could of done the rendering that 
|> >was done with ToyStory with a 4MB system.  
|> >
|> >Please state memory requirements with TRUE MEMORY, and not with VMM or 
|> >RamDouble type programs.
|> 
|> Virtual Memory is not the kiss of death to PC's.  Perhaps if we had
|> grown up with the Mac's awful paging scheme, I could understand of
|> being leery of it.  But having 20 megs of swap file in todays HD price
|> market is hardly a major barrier.
|> 
    I've seen in a couple different sources that the PC has very bad memory
 management.  When it starts paging to it's hard drive it continues to do so
 even if real memory has freed up. This was with 3.1 so it may have been a 
 limitation of that os.  However, I've come across other data that use different
 oses and they've reported the same problem.  I have come across "good" reports
 also that virtual memory shuts off when real memory is available again.  Can 
 anyone shed a bit o' light on this since I have conflicting data?

|> But yes, I will give you this- without a swap file, Win95 is useless.
|> You can operate a Mac without one- and from my experience, you want to
|> do that whenever possible.
|>
     
   That's with *any* system.  Real 60ns (or better :) memory is *always* 
 better than grinding away on the hard disk. 

Shane