Comments on: How to Optimize Your Swap File to Increase Performance http://www.gilsmethod.com/optimize_swap_file Technology How-to Guides for the Rest of Us Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Larry Miller http://www.gilsmethod.com/optimize_swap_file/comment-page-1#comment-6405 Larry Miller Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:33:35 +0000 http://www.gilsmethod.com/?p=341#comment-6405 This is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It will have no effect on any other system. On NT systems the system.ini file is virtually obsolete, being maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit software. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored. The pagefile enhances performance by freeing RAM from the burden of storing rarely used data. Such data is copied to the pagefile during periods of low CPU and disk activity. This is an ongoing process. Delaying this until RAM is exhausted would impair performance, not improve it. Fortunately, since this setting is ignored, this will not occur. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA This is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It will have no effect on any other system.

On NT systems the system.ini file is virtually obsolete, being maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit software. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored.

The pagefile enhances performance by freeing RAM from the burden of storing rarely used data. Such data is copied to the pagefile during periods of low CPU and disk activity. This is an ongoing process. Delaying this until RAM is exhausted would impair performance, not improve it. Fortunately, since this setting is ignored, this will not occur.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

]]> By: Larry Miller http://www.gilsmethod.com/optimize_swap_file/comment-page-1#comment-40360 Larry Miller Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:33:00 +0000 http://www.gilsmethod.com/?p=341#comment-40360 This is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It will have no effect on any other system. On NT systems the system.ini file is virtually obsolete, being maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit software. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored. The pagefile enhances performance by freeing RAM from the burden of storing rarely used data. Such data is copied to the pagefile during periods of low CPU and disk activity. This is an ongoing process. Delaying this until RAM is exhausted would impair performance, not improve it. Fortunately, since this setting is ignored, this will not occur. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA This is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It will have no effect on any other system.

On NT systems the system.ini file is virtually obsolete, being maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit software. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored.

The pagefile enhances performance by freeing RAM from the burden of storing rarely used data. Such data is copied to the pagefile during periods of low CPU and disk activity. This is an ongoing process. Delaying this until RAM is exhausted would impair performance, not improve it. Fortunately, since this setting is ignored, this will not occur.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

]]> By: Larry Miller http://www.gilsmethod.com/optimize_swap_file/comment-page-1#comment-40361 Larry Miller Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:33:00 +0000 http://www.gilsmethod.com/?p=341#comment-40361 This is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It will have no effect on any other system. On NT systems the system.ini file is virtually obsolete, being maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit software. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored. The pagefile enhances performance by freeing RAM from the burden of storing rarely used data. Such data is copied to the pagefile during periods of low CPU and disk activity. This is an ongoing process. Delaying this until RAM is exhausted would impair performance, not improve it. Fortunately, since this setting is ignored, this will not occur. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA This is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It will have no effect on any other system.

On NT systems the system.ini file is virtually obsolete, being maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit software. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored.

The pagefile enhances performance by freeing RAM from the burden of storing rarely used data. Such data is copied to the pagefile during periods of low CPU and disk activity. This is an ongoing process. Delaying this until RAM is exhausted would impair performance, not improve it. Fortunately, since this setting is ignored, this will not occur.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

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