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In article <4h05qp$48p@allinux2.alliance.net>,
   sda19@mail.alliance.net (Steve Davis) wrote:
>In article <NEWTNews.824709312.14041.dadkins@dadkins.ianet.net>, David 
Adkins <dadkins@mail.ianet.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Bob I was just getting ready to ask the same question. I
>>have noticed the same thing since I upgraded from Windows 3.11
>>to Windows 95.
>>However I have noticed it only while the computer is idle.
>>Must be some way to increase sales of HDs after wearing them out!
>>
>>If anybody knows the real reason, I'd be interested to know.
>
>I didn't catch the first post but I can imagine what the question is.  
>Your doing nothing but staring at the girlie picture you just 
>downloaded and all of a sudden the HD light starts flickering - your 
>not even touching the thing let alone DL'ing anything.
>
>The answer is called PREPAGING - during idle periods Win 95 decides to 
>start writing memory contents to the HD into the swap file - now mind 
>you the stuff is *still* in the memory - 95 just does it so the the 
>contents are already paged out to virtual memory should you call upon 
>95 to divey up some more of this virtual stuff.
>
>It's designed to increase performance but it seems a nusence.  Good 
>news is that if you have over 16 meg of memory it just about 
>disappears - that is until you start loading the system up withh all 
>kinds of apps, even in this day and age a lot of people still don't 
>do this in ernest.

Another way to improve performance (less HD access for virtual memory 
purposes), make your Virtual Memory Max & Min sizes the same value.  This 
value should be 1.5 * RAM if you have the disk space.  Making max=min stops 
the unnecessary resizing of the swap file.




































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