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Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:36:26 PST8
From:	jbrush@aros.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OT: W2K pagefile.sys

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In <41983B55.DA446695@pacbell.net>, on 11/14/04
at 09:15 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>> partitions anyway.
>>
>> Can I get some wisdom on how small I could make this file, and whether
>> I can convert the partition to FAT? (Problem is it messes up the
>> drive letters).

I use Win2K :-( and it resides on a 2gig FAT C: partition. Apps run off a
fat32 job further down the line. I just let it set up its own swap file,
and it puts it all on that C /fat partition. The settings for it are under
the System setup/virtual memory. I am not on it, so I cannot say exactly
how to get there. I only recall that you can move it anyplace you want,
split it across drives, and get the option to make it whatever size you
want. I usually make it around 500Meg with my 384Meg Ram and it seems
happy. The one thing I do seem to recall is I always have to have some
part of the swap file on the C partition. When I try to make it all go
somewhere else, it gets upset and won't let me do that, so C ends up with
a very small portion for swapfile and the rest is elsewhere, so I guess
you can see that it can use a swap file on a FAT partition. Don't recall
what size that is, but you will find out by trying.

I only wish Windwoes used swap files like OS/2. Drives me nuts how it will
use the swapper, when there is plenty of free RAM.....

Good luck.

John

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