Michael: You can override the recommendation by highlighting, deleting, and entering your own number, if I remember correctly. Its been a long time since I used or did it.
If your available hard-disk space is insufficient, then you will create problems or perhaps the system will tell you "insufficient space." The size of swapfile is determined when windows installed or upgraded and amount of disk drive available.
As I remember, it was also adviseable to have at least 10% of disk space totally free, as well as amount of swapfile.
Finally, for someone like both you and Kevin, who is on all day w/ multiple windows... Win 3.1 suffers from prolonged "memory creep" and depending on your programs used may not return unused memory. Only way to fix that is log off occassionally.
I was playing SimCIty 2000 one day, left it running and came back from lunch to find computer "flying fonts" screen saver frozen and insufficient memory available to shut down the most minor app.
Finally, if you are using Netscape, remember that its disk cache is 5 MB on average and altho it improves performance, it takes a lot of space. Not sure how Win 3.1 deals with this memory allocation as I never used Netscape while using 3.1 |
