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Swap file too small?

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For some odd reason, after I finished messing with accounts and permissions on my box, the message come up that I didnt have a swap file on my drives, or that they were too small. So I go into the settings area and change it to 768-1506 MB, and clicked set, then ok. It still has the same message popping up. Its kinda annoying, cause my ram is being eatin alive and it takes forever to load IE now.

What could I have possibly done wrong? I set everything back to the way it was, yet it still gives me the message.😕

Specs: Win2k, SP3
1.9 p4
512 rdram pc800
 
google suggestion:

this is most often a permissions issue, make sure that the partition the file is
on shows "system" or "everyone" for permissions. (NTFS). If this is not the case,
you may need to delete the swap file and start over. The procedure for deleting it
is to enter 0-0 in the sizes, then set and reboot, then enter the values you want
 
i remember reading someplaces often, that the swap whousl be set as the min and max values as twice the memory you have. so in theory, it should be set to 1024 megs. this keeps it from being dynamic and is supposed to speed it up as it no longer has to manage the size.
 
The swap file too small will come up when you run out of virtual memory, and you said 'my ram is being eatin alive', is there something that got installed which is actually going out and allocating a couple gigs of memory when you have this problem (what does taskman show as the maximum and current memory loads?)
Bill
 
I'm running with 704MB RAM and I have my virtual memory turned OFF. Never any problem. Somebody told me that if >256 or so MB RAM that it actually runs faster without the swapfile -- and I believe it!

I'm kinda inclined to agree with bsobel that something is loading up your memory... You'll have to look at taskman to see what it is. Also check msconfig to see what you're loading up.
 
Originally posted by: alm4rr
i remember reading someplaces often, that the swap whousl be set as the min and max values as twice the memory you have. so in theory, it should be set to 1024 megs. this keeps it from being dynamic and is supposed to speed it up as it no longer has to manage the size.
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Setting page file to static (max=min): Good idea; reduces fragmentation.
Setting page file to twice physcial memory: Big, fat myth.
 
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