virtual memory

[Werewolfdaddy]

My p4 has 640mb memory and 2 hard drives. I have heard that putting virtual memory to write on a different drive than the drives the games are being played on increases speed. Also, I ran system monitor the other day and it was still swapping with over 120mb of memory left over. How can I change that? What possible use could there be to swap with so much memory left over?

[HAL9000]

Double check your system monitor, there are two possible readings. One is "swapfile size", the other is "swapfile in use". I run 512Mb and my swapfile is always 120Mb, but I rarely have any of it in use.

[Werewolfdaddy]

Right now, there is only a thin sliver of activity according to system monitor, but I have over 400mb free ram available.