virtual or swapfile question.

[john robbinson]

followed a system tweak from a sit it said to change my virtual seting from windows mngr to manual and set between 128mb-256mb i did it it will only let me go 185 on min? so i set it to 185 on both. Qestion what is this is that mb or is that kilobyts? and what is all this. P.S. I have 2gigs of hdd left and 128 total of ram 64,32,32. pc100 oh is it safe to mess with cas timing in bios i have auto and manual settings.

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[john robbinson]

i put the p.s. way down on my post dont know why it din't post that way?

[AndreBranco]

look for the file win386.swp, this will say how much virtual ram your computer is using. 3 times is what some recommend, i think 2 is better, because, i found that the greater the # is, the slower it gets.

1,048,576 bytes=1 mega byte, some harddrive makers say 1,000,000=1 mega byte, 1048576 i think is correct.

i don't know about "cas timing", i ask someone (on another forum) about this once, and got no answer. people here will help.

[john robbinson]

thanks Andre its just that the site said mb but since the max setting go's into the five digets # and dosn't have any abreveations i don't know if 185 is megabytes kilobytes or bytes? help

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[AndreBranco]

you probably have something like this, hard disk: c:\ 2048mb free. which means 2 gigabyte (1024x2 giga). 185 is megabyte. 185mb

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[socalgal]

You didn't mention which site you visited, but here is good one for explaining the Swap File and how to optimize it, if you haven't seen it yet.

epsilon.silicon.net.my/adrian/ (http://epsilon.silicon.net.my/adrian/)

Swap Optimization Guide link.

PC100 SDRAM - if it's rated Cas L 2, suggest setting it at Cas L 3 - it is more stable. And if your SDRAM is Cas L 3 then run it at Cas L 3.



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[AndreBranco]

this is good stuff socalgal.