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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (3539)	11/15/1998 12:29:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>256 RAM, and a 250 meg pagefile ... Think about what that says <g>. That says you can't quite page out your physical memory; you might as well not have the page file at all. This is not entirely true, of course, because once you remove the nonpageable memory (including cache), you will have less than 250 meg of pageable memory. Suppose you have 200 megs. Then you could only page out 50. In short, you are severely restricting your machine. I'd want a gig of page file for 256 megs of main memory myself (Win 3.1 went cuckoo if the page file was more than twice real memory, but NT handles it very nicely). Nothing's free <ggg>. Spots