[Hpro]

The reason for me to adjust the PAGE FILE (Win2K) or the SWAP FILE (Win 98) is following :
Each time you restart your computer and boot it up the computer has to write a full size SWAPFILE to the hard disk this slowing down the boot process even on the fastest Computer ..

Setting the Swapfile to 64 Mb taking care of the minimum so that it is assured that Windows will have some place to store it's data while booting - You may notice that Win2k or Win98 will take away about 40 - 60 Mb Ram from 128Mb Physical RAM so you will have either 60 Mb or more left for the use of your applications..That's one of the reasons that I set the Swapfile to 64Mb this will be more than the Computer uses on Physical RAM..

The upper limit is 128 together with the 128 MB Phisical RAM this should be more than enough to have at least ten - to fifteen apps open at the same time without getting a OUT Of MEMORY Error on Win98 and without that Windows will slow down..bTW If Win2k finds that the pagefile isn't enough it will still adjust is automatically - withut to have to restart - happend only once..

Here on my computers I use this settings and it is by far the fastest setting - once I cut the swapfile down to a mere 16 mb but would get out of memory errors when using Win98 - not so on Win2k if you look really good in the advanced setting tab where you change the Pagefile then I could go down to 2MB PAGEFILE this is the minimum the system requires..

If you like to have a huge Swapfile then - it is your freedom to have it as the one I have here fits my needs...

Running RED Hat 7.0 on the computer here with 128Mb RAM I never ever saw that the Swap partition was used - each time I ckeck it, it tells me 0 mb used..and BTW RAM does the thing alot faster than any hard drive ..

Same thing is I have the Temporary Internet Cache set to 5Mb the Recycle bin to 10 Mb the history to 3 days - all this just to keep as little junk as possible on the computer I like to work with - without having to wait until it finds it things within 10'000 files Temp files or can write to the disk in a 400 Mb Swapfile... BTW Win2k defrags the hard drive -70 % load , using Diskeeper 6.0 within 2 minutes at max and Win98 using Norton speed disk Ver.4.0 the 10 GB drive 80% load in somewhat over 3 minutes...this including moving the SWAPFILE

Right now the PAGE FILE is at 64 Mb shown and Physical Ram (Task Manager)I have 45 Mb RAM left - Kernel Memory Total 29Mb - Paged 25Mb - Nonpaged 4mb -Used Memory 74660MB (Physical RAM) and the CPU is running on 2 percent ..now 45Mb RAM left to work with and on top 64Mb pagefile there is no problem .. -

Open are IE6.0,Two Browser Windows, ICQ 2000B, OE 6.0 and explorer and WMP6.4 where Mp3 muisc (Eric Clapton give his best..)is playing non stop..

Oh here something to the hard ware:
MOBO EPOX PP6- NF with Modified Bios (Bios DATE 08-15-1997)
Pentiunm Pro 200 cache 512 with Dynamic clock - present Speed 350Mhz on 2.1 Volts and two 4" By 2"( Secondary number is thickness) High Speed fans on the regular Pro heat sink One front and one back fan & 300 Watt Power Supply FAN
VGA Innovison VOODOO Banshee PCI 16Mb - Monitor Samsung 17inch GLI
Hauppauge WinTV
ATA66 IDE Controller
CREATIVE AWE64 GOLD Sound Blaster with 4mb Ram (midi)
Hard drives Quantum 7.5 GB (win2k) Quantum 10.2GB (Win 98) , Quantum 4.3GB CR (RED HAT) Quantum Fireball 1.2GB (QNX 6)
CDROM ASUS 50X
Computer is 24hours on unless I have to switch OS for whatever reasons..
Win2k Bootime less than 75 seconds , Win98 Bootime less than 60 seconds never measured Red Hat and QNX full version will boot under 25 seconds - I also got a PIII - 800 and it doesn't goes much faster..

Does this answer your question?

BTW - There are also some Problems with this configuration but this are very minimal
1.Win98 will no kee the exact time - because of the Dynamic Bus Clock
2.MIDI will play slow because the ISA bus is to fast by 1 Mhz
Everything else works great..