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To: Len who wrote (3575)	11/16/1998 3:28:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Spots, I have my pagefiles set as a constant number, i.e., the same minimum and maximum. I think it is better to leave them that way, so that the OS doesn't have to waste time sizing and resizing the file. You do have to periodically reduce them to nil, so that you can defrag the space, but it's no more trouble than an extra reboot or two. ( I leave a pagefile of sufficient size in the root, so that I can do so.) Maybe Sean or others can weigh in on whether having fixed size pagefiles make more sense. Len Same here... Main reason I do it is that I know once and a while I will need 500M of memory so I allocate that much up front so it dosn't get used by other files and isn't there when I really need it.. Sean

To: Len who wrote (3575)	11/16/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: EMorrison	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Len, FYI. "You do have to periodically reduce them to nil, so that you can defrag the space" EXECUTIVE SOFTWARE(r) PRODUCT NEWS Diskeeper(r) 4.0 Released! Diskeeper 4.0 has a brand new technical breakthrough for increased system performance: Paging File Defragmentation. Find out about the latest, and by far the greatest, version of Diskeeper for Windows NT. execsoft.com Ed p.s. not affiliated in any way with Execsoft

To: Len who wrote (3575)	11/16/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>I have my pagefiles set as a constant number I set mine variable because I never know when I will overrun the maximum I think I will need. Like Sean, I do indeed set my swap space based on the max I think I'll ever need to reserve it. But then on top of that I add a variable size in case I figured wrong. The worst that ever happens is I can't allocate it if I need it, which exactly what would always be true if I had allocated a fixed size in the first place. So I will fail at worst as often as you if you allocate a fixed size, and at best much less frequently. Hopefully both of our failure rates will be zero. Unfortunately, my rate is not zero. Thus my reasoning. So, no, I don't buy into a fixed-size swap space, but I DO agree that the min should be set to the maximum you think you will ever need, for exactly the reason Sean stated. This is just a nit's worth of difference, IMO. I've been trapped enough that I always look for a way out. I once went into plan E, so now I have plans F and G ... <ggg>. Spots