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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:27 ADT
Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Tue, 19 May 1998 09:39:37 (NZST)
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, is there any reason one can't put a window's swap-file on a SFS
>partition?
None at all, there are a number of people doing this right now. For those who
don't know, SFS is a transparent disk encryption program for DOS/Windows (there
are several others also available, eg Secure Device, Secure Drive), what you do
with these is create a temporary swap file on the encrypted partition. The
downside is a slight slowdown in access due to the encryption, the actual use
of a temporary vs permanent swapfile seems to make almost no difference.
Peter.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:27 ADT