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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:26 ADT
Julian Assange (proff@iq.org)
18 May 1998 21:37:33 +1000
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> >OTOH, [Windows 95 only] if (starting at the W95 desktop) you right click "My
> >computer" and then, in succession, click Properties, Performance, Virtual
> >Memory, and choose to set the virtual memory to 0 (specifically allowed as
> >noted in the Help for that window), then and only then, could you say that
> >swapping does not occur. Cautions: (1) reboot required before and after, (2)
> >you will need a lot of real memory installed. How much memory? That might be
> >an example on an unshared secret. <g>
>
> One caveat when doing this: I don't know about Win95, but under 3.1 turning off
> swapping would cause Windows to crash when you ran low on memory or when you'd
> left it running for awhile (anything from a few days to a week, I can't
> remember the exact timing). Creating a small RAM drive and allocating a token
> swapfile (say, a few hundred K) on it fixes this.
>
> Peter.
Peter, is there any reason one can't put a window's swap-file on a SFS partition?
Cheers,
Julian.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:26 ADT