need for swap file?

[squirrel dog]

With a half a gig of ram,is there a need for a swap file?I run win98se,and mostly run one or two apps,and edit the odd picture now and then.Most games I play arent too memory intensive.I have the conservativeswapfile=1 statement in my sys.ini file,and I have a swap file on another drive,its set at 340 megs.Do I need that swap file anymore?

 

[MindBlast]

Try disabaling the swap file if system crashes enable it
very simple!!!

 

[Noriaki]

If you will never use more than 512MB of RAM, then no you don't need a swap file.

if you set CSFU=1, and let windows autosize it, it should stay at 0MB all the time, so it can't hurt to leave it there.
But you should get by fine disabling it as long as you have enough physical memory for what you do.

 

[Bovinicus]

A swap file for you probably is unecessary. With the task manager in windows 2000 i have not seen my usage go over 300MB, and that with photoshop, pirch, miranda, gamespy, and counter-strike running simultaneously. I might have been burning a CD too, heh. So a swap file isn't needed it sounds to me.

 

[volfan]

I would hope you aren't as strapped for space as to not allow, say 128MB for a swap file. It can't hurt if you're like me and have a few spare gigs of hard drive space.

 

[squirrel dog]

actually I have 104 gigs of drive space.This pc I've built is overkill,1gigahertz cpu,512 meg ram,104 gigs drive space,I think I will resize the swapfile to 200 megs.Thanks for the feedback.........SD.........