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XP, RAM and swap file

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Hello, I just finished upgrading my system including mobo, cpu and hd. After the finished setup XP automatically created 1536 mb or so... swap file on system disk. However since I have 1 gb of ram installed i disabled the swap file alltogether. Anyone has any tips on that? Maybe precautions? What if I actually do run out of memory?

 

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If you do manage to run out of ram, whatever program that is trying to use more will fail.... maybe gracefully with an error message or something, maybe a full out crash. If you can spare the drive space, it would be a good idea to make a fixed pagefile, probably a few hundred meg. This will at least give you some warning, before you're totally out - so if the hard drive starts thrashing, you know you need to shut some programs down....

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