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Article #6Re: HD access light flicker
From: Jon Hill
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4h3ap7$1sc2_002@cs1.electriciti.com>, Ed Redondo <evrwrite@p owergrid.electriciti.com> writes > > >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. > >============================================================== > The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its > credibility. And vice versa. >====================================== Ed Redondo ============ > Thanks Ed, But how do you arrive at 1.5 * RAM size ? All the advice that I've recieved recently has recommended a permanent swap file size of between 30 and 50Mb and if I could reduce it to 24Mb (I have 16Mb of RAM) this would help considerably......disk space is now at a premium again (sigh) Thanks Jon -- ____________________________________________________________________ Jon Hill There has recently been an alarming increase in the number of things I know absolutely nothing about......... ____________________________________________________________________
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c888,10acf01ba00fa62a X-Google-Attributes: gid10c888,public X-Google-Thread: 10dc12,10acf01ba00fa62a X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc12,public X-Google-Thread: 10d516,10acf01ba00fa62a X-Google-Attributes: gid10d516,public X-Google-Thread: fad41,10acf01ba00fa62a X-Google-Attributes: gidfad41,public X-Google-Thread: 104cb0,10acf01ba00fa62a X-Google-Attributes: gid104cb0,public From: Jon Hill <Jon@maberly.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: HD access light flicker Date: 1996/02/29 Message-ID: <77+jGCAwrhNxEwhn@maberly.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 141743635 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: maberly.demon.co.uk references: <3121599b.462652@nntp.ix.netcom.com> organization: Drake & Scull Technical Services mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: Jon Hill <jon@maberly.demon.co.uk> newsgroups: kiel.computer.windows.win95,demon.ip.support.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95