When setting the registry for fixed swapfile, what do U set the drop-down window at? Managed by Windoze or Let me?

[MichaelD]

Cripes, there was no easy way to word that! Budman, GStanfor, etc. all you guys that helped me out in my Original Thread about 512mb answer me this one last question please.


Before I mess with The Evil Registry of No Return and set all the tweaks you guys suggested, I go into My Computer/Performance/Virtual Mem, and set it to what? Let Windows manage, or Let Me manage, and if it's "me", what do I set min/max at? Thanks so much. Have a nice evening.

 

[Jeff H]

MichaelD, I'll take a stab at it. You should manage the swap file, and be sure to set the min and max to the same value, otherwise Windows will still attempt to mess w/ it. Set it to somewhere around 250MB and leave it.

If you have your hard drive partitioned, or you have more than one physical hard drive, get the swap file off of your C: drive. Be sure to fully defrag whatever drive you put the fixed swap file on, before you set it up.

 

[MichaelD]

NE1 else. Please?

 

[Budman]

Just let windows manage the swapfile,But you will find with that much ram & if you add the line Conservativeswapfileusage=1 to the apropriate place your swapfile will be 0kb when you boot up.

So no sence making a huge swapfile when it's not gonna use it is there?

Just add that line & if & when windows needs more than 512 megs it will make the swapfile grow a bit.

 

[MichaelD]

Budman, 'Da Man, comes thru again. Hey, it even rhymes if you say it right! Thank you. Now the question is: what will bench higher/perform better? 256mb at 110FSB or 512mb at 105FSB? I'll find out! Later.

 

[Challenger]

Budman I did the conservativeswapfile what do you think about this line in the .ini files?

 

[Budman]

Challenger,

You goto run then type "sysedit" and from there go to your system.ini file & add the line "conservativeswapfileusage=1" right under "[386enh]" & you're all set.

After doing that Win98 will use up all the ram before even touching the swapfile.

 

[TuffGuy]

<-- disabled his.

 

[Challenger]

Thanks Budman!BTW I'm running ME does that make any diff?

 

[Budman]

Nope this will work on any 9X OS.

Tell Win9X to manage the swapfile then add that line to system.ini &amp; it will not make a big swapfile if you got tons of ram.

 

[MCS]

Yep, totally agree, my swapfile is usually 0MB.

 

[morriswindgate]

Go here > This site has a really great guide for setting a permanant swap file
http://www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz.htm