SWAP SETTING
SWAP SETTING
(OP)
I want to increase the swap space on my machine (windows xp prof) 3.2Ghz 1.0 Gig RAM. I came across some documentation form PTC and Microsoft telling how to change the settings but what scared me was the "messing" with the BOOTINI file. Please let me know if anyone has tried it and have been successful or ran into problems. Thanks.
ahad
ahad





RE: SWAP SETTING
ahad
RE: SWAP SETTING
I would recommend a fixed size for the page file (swap space), otherwise you will end up with fragmentation issues on your hard-drive.
I've mucked around with this setting lots - really zero risk. Note that the maximum addressable memory (actual + virtual) to any one program is 2GB, unless you invoke the /3GB switch when starting up XP. Check out the Microsoft KB on that setting.
Good luck!
RE: SWAP SETTING
If you're worried just save the current boot.ini file as say boot.old and then you can always go back to it if you want.
All I did was add "/3GB" at the end of the last line of the boot.ini file.
RE: SWAP SETTING