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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:26 ADT
Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Sun, 17 May 1998 13:53:00 (NZST)
>OTOH, [Windows 95 only] if (starting at the W95 desktop) you right click "My
>computer" and then, in succession, click Properties, Performance, Virtual
>Memory, and choose to set the virtual memory to 0 (specifically allowed as
>noted in the Help for that window), then and only then, could you say that
>swapping does not occur. Cautions: (1) reboot required before and after, (2)
>you will need a lot of real memory installed. How much memory? That might be
>an example on an unshared secret. <g>
One caveat when doing this: I don't know about Win95, but under 3.1 turning off
swapping would cause Windows to crash when you ran low on memory or when you'd
left it running for awhile (anything from a few days to a week, I can't
remember the exact timing). Creating a small RAM drive and allocating a token
swapfile (say, a few hundred K) on it fixes this.
Peter.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:26 ADT