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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:13:55 -0700
To: "Mark  F.  Warchol" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
From: Robert Sears <bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com>
Subject: Re: 386spart.par?
Cc: <wilmarc AT gte DOT net>, <OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com>
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If you have 8 megs physical ram or less then you really need a 16 of 24 meg
swap file to run big apps. If you have 16 megs ram then you can get by with
an 8 - 12 meg or less swap file unless you run huge apps like Photoshop or
work with big images. With even more ram you can get by with even less. I
have 32 megs ram and normaly I run a 2 meg swapfile the only app I have had
ever complain is Photoshop, so I up'd it to 20 megs.

There is an advantage to running as small a swapfile as you can. With a
small swap file it forces Window to keep more data in the physical ram adnd
swap less, therefore increasing performance.

At 04:40 PM 6/28/98 +000, Mark  F.  Warchol wrote:
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>Got it, did you say 2 or 3 times your memory size?  Would that mean 40-ram
>should have a file 1.2M?  Wow?
>      Mark
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