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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Randy Whittle wrote: > At 12:19 PM 8/11/96 -0400, John H. Kim wrote: > > > >Win95's default swapfile management is inane (16MB free on swap > >partition). I'd be doing nothing in particular when Win95 suddenly > >decided it should reduce the swapfile size. The resulting disk > >activity pretty much ground everything to a halt for 5-30 sec. > > How do you tell its actually messing with the swapfile? Just > whenever you have mysterious disk activity? I kept a file explorer window (or whatever it's called) open and watched the free disk space on the swapfile partition. It'd get almost full, thrash for 5-30 sec, then there'd be lots of space free. > >crash. Eventually I got fed up and fixed the swapfile size at 8MB. > >It still crashes, but not as often. > > You set a limit to how big the swapfile gets though. Windows still > controls the size, but limited by what you set it at. Have you tried that > and if so, does that help you any? That's what I did. I'd originally followed Microsoft's advice and let Win95 manage my swapfile size. Silly me. -- John H. Kim "I stop for red traffic lights" -- bumper sticker jokim@mit.edu commissioned by the City of Boston as part of a MIT Sea Grant campaign to shed its reputation for bad drivers.