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      6th Feb 2008
okay I'm letting windows manage it but why does it say 2337 mb size but when
you click change it says on the bottom recommended 3055mb?
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      8th Feb 2008
Hello, anyone going to answer?

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      8th Feb 2008
the size will vary as needed when you check the 'allow windows to manage' or
such.
setting a fixed size will either cause you to run out of memory or waste
space.
Windows won't allow the size to get too small unless the swapfile drive runs
out of space.

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Oh Okay thanks

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> the size will vary as needed when you check the 'allow windows to manage'
> or such.
> setting a fixed size will either cause you to run out of memory or waste
> space.
> Windows won't allow the size to get too small unless the swapfile drive
> runs out of space.
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>>> okay I'm letting windows manage it but why does it say 2337 mb size but
>>> when you click change it says on the bottom recommended 3055mb?
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      11th Feb 2008
I have seen many opinions & reasons for doing it many different ways.
Personally, I don't think having a min/max set for the swap file is a good
idea.
Having a maximum size means you 'could' run out of room in the swap file.
Having a minimum size means the file won't be completely removed/replaced at
bootup.
To me that means the possibility, however small, that the swap file could
save corrupt data.
On this machine, I have a relatively small (30GB) EIDE 7200 HDD that I like
to use as my swap file drive.
I put nothing else on it and allow Windows to manage the size.
That way it is not slowed by anything else being accessed/written to the
drive.

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> Pagefiles are a subject that seems to arouse disproportionate wrath and
> ire - sort of like the Mac/PC controversy but without (most of) the
> religious overtones. Should you normalize your your pagefile (ie set the
> upper and lower bound the same)? Should all or part of it be on another
> spindle (hard drive) - NOT partition? Where do you stand on the
> Fragmentation issue and why? Well, I would say normalize and if you feel
> like it do the spindle thing too. How's that for fence-sitting?arty:
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