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Shrub   09-02-2005 at 11:33:20 AM

I'm planning on booting this Dell Optiplex machine I have fomr a 512MB CF card on a CF-IDE adaptor. The machine is intended for use as a media center - for movies, music and general net browsing. With 128MB RAM installed will I be able to get away with disabling the swapfile, and is there any other harddisk caching I should know about?

Thanks

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fishmahn   09-02-2005 at 06:06:04 PM
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Not sure but I doubt it. Only thing I can suggest is try it. Turn off VM and see how long/much it'll run.

Mike.

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Shrub   09-02-2005 at 09:34:19 PM
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Actually, I just realised I can move the swapfile to a different drive. I'm just hoping the PC will boot quicker from CF otherwise it'll be pointless anyway.

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DCB_AU   11-13-2005 at 05:25:52 AM
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I'm planning on booting this Dell Optiplex machine I have fomr a 512MB CF card on a CF-IDE adaptor. The machine is intended for use as a media center - for movies, music and general net browsing. With 128MB RAM installed will I be able to get away with disabling the swapfile, and is there any other harddisk caching I should know about?

Thanks




If you had 1gig of ram then you could probably get away with disabling the SF, but remember that some applictions do not like the swap file being disabled.

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ashvindx   04-05-2006 at 03:08:55 PM
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I read somewhere that Windows 98 can only use 256MB of memory effectively. So, no matter how much you add after, say 400MB, you would still need to enable Swap file. I had the same problem with my 768MB.

Windows XP however, can work without a hitch with Virtual Memory turned off. I usually go upto 800MB usage while working on my 1GB laptop. It really helps increasing system performance given the poor hard drive performance in them.

I recommend you switch to Windows XP given that you have 512MB of memory. On my system, Windows XP with 64 MB is faster than Windows 98 with 64MB in some cases. I.e. Windows XP has a better memory management system than earlier Windows.

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