🚀 go-pugleaf

daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) wrote:

>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.

>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.

I have had times when I run out of swap memory when my swap file was
over 350 MB, and it wasn't because of what I was running, (Netscape,
Norton Utilities) it was because of poor swap file management