Best swapfilesize for 384 meg RAM in Win2k?

[Yoshi64]

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[DN]

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[VBboy]

I noticed that Windows 2000 constantly performs writes to the Swap file.
Firtst, I couldn't tell why Windows was constantly doing something to the HD even when I wasn't using the PC. Then I used a file-tracking program which tell me which file is being accessed by any program. It turned out that Windows was writing to the Swap file - possibly, defragmenting it behind the scenes, or shrinking/growing it (even when nothing was actually using it). It was extremely annoying as I don't like the randomly flashing HD led as well as the idea that something is going on without my consent.

I set a fixed size to the Swap file, and this stopped. In your case, unless you do heavy CAD'ing and or Photoshop'ing, I would have total 512 MB of RAM, so SwapFileSize = 512 - YourPhysicalRam.

If you do in fact do something that requires a LOT of RAM, you can go for 640 total. But having a fixed swap file slighly helps the performance as Windows does not have to dynamically shrink and grow it.

P.S. If MrHelpful sees this, he will think very highly of me. Maybe he will like me... Not