First post, by Jo22
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Hi everyone,
After reading these threads:
Do you *need* a swap file with Win98 & 384/512MB RAM?
Do you *need* a swap file with Win98 & 384/512MB RAM (...continued)?
..I couldn't help but had to wonder: Is that memory enough?
In Windows 3.1 days, the swap file was said to be about four times the size of the physical RAM, at least.
So for 4MB of RAM, a 16MB swap file was allocated (if HDD space allowed for it).
Or it was 12MB in practice, if the system RAM was subtracted.
Doesn't this mean that, say, a 256MB RAM/256MB Swap configuration is basically insufficient?
Other users,however, talk about 2.5x being a minimum swap file size for Windows 9x.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/195 … mory-swap-file/
Also, what happens if the swap file cannot grow?
On a real drive, Windows re-allocated the swap file, if it ran out of memory.
Unless it's a permanent swap file (that was a Windows 3.1x thing).
This allowed the virtual memory to be almost endless
(ok, with the end of address space being a limit, say 4GB on x86, without using segmentation).
On a tiny RAM drive, that's not possible, unfortunately.
Applications will run out-of-memory thus, which is exactly why we did let swapfile be enabled in first place.
Any ideas welcome.
Best regards,
Jo22
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