From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I believe that is correct, and depending on the option you set for either
full, or mini-dumps, will determine the minimum size you can make the swap
file.

Hell, I'd just throw a TON of ram in the machine and be done with it.

Our 8way Dell has 4 gig of ram in it, and I've never seen it use all of it,
swap file always shows currently allocated at the minimum amount defined.
When it was purchased, it was a no brainer to get as much as they could
get, rather than try to add it later.

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Glenn M.


"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:6c76s0ptg5cecek0cctjvph0hh1mgd6a29{at}4ax.com...
> I heard somewhere (probably here! ) that regardless of what other
> swap files you have you need one on the boot partition if you want to
> capture crash dumps.
>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:04:13 -0500, "Frank Haber"

> wrote in message :
>
> >Data point: Every big OEM ships machines with the principal swapfile set
> >manually to 700-1500k for a 512MB machine (proportionally larger or
smaller
> >for different amounts of shipped RAM).  I presume they know something
about
> >swapfile thrashing, needless overhead expanding and shrinking the .SWP,
etc.
> >I set my homemades the same way, on the theory that I have the space, and
why
> >not just follow the leader blindly (g).
> >
> >I run a number of old P4s with 30-40G system disks, plus 80-250G drive
1s.  I
> >always move the big swapfile to D:, and manually set a 20-40MB fixed
swapfile
> >on C:, based on some old NT4/NTFS info I got once.  Does anyone know
whether
> >this info is still valid, or just more fodder  for my Cargo Cult approach
to
> >administration?
>

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