I think this will help you understand

 

Close, but that wouldn't result in noticable speed gain in the swap file, since you're still running off the same drive plates/drive arms. You have to go to an entirely different drive to get noticable speed gains in high mem. intensive stuff.

I have 2 hard drives. the older C, with slower seek time, and the faster D with faster seek time, better buffer, more storage space.

I choose to disable windows making a variable sized swap file, as this just winds up slowing down the system eventually due to massive fragmentation, and told it to use a custom sized swap file of 2 gigs. I told it to ALWAYS keep it at 2 gigs, to prevent major fragmentation, and it spending time constantly managing the swap files size.

Truth be told, I enjoy running with no swap file at all, as it runs purely off of my gig of ram, but then when I fire something up that uses over that gig, or when my combined programs running use more then that gig, windows freaks out and make a swap anyway, so I let it keep it's constant one so I don't get bothered over it

 

I just delete whatever is in my history and it goes away.

All these computer savvy terms and explantions confound me, i fear i must take time to learn how to become one with the pc.

 

Aye, but to a point. The gaming freaks who have to have 2 gigs of the highest ram usually find it only helps in very select appications (video editing, sound editing on a huge scale, and the several games out that use it) but for the most part past 1 gig you wind up being limited more by the proc/vid/sound/etc then the Ram.

I only say that b/c I at one point was ignorant enough to think that adding a gig worth of SDRAM 133mhz to a 433mhz Celeron proc. would make the thing blaze off a comment similar to the one you just made. Wow what an waste of cash that was at the time, heh.

 

ouch.... just ouch!

I rmember thinking that back when I stil had only 16mbs and a craptastic onboard video card back in'97/98 and I was still under the delusion that if I added memory or a better video card it'd help with my realplayer videos... ROTFLMAO I still didn't understand how video encoding worked at the time so what can I say? Of course I had to have been absolutely insane to be trying to edit wav files and do audio encoding on that old hacked together AST Adventure 2001 133mhz box...

[shrugs] Not like I knew any better...nor did most people at the time actually. Still you'd think I'd have realized something was wrong when I had to wait 5-10 minutes for the app to open the audio I was hacking together and another 20-30 minutes to render as a wav later.

I hope your were able to at least get some use out of the memory at the time? Or did it become useless after you upgraded the mobo?

--bornagainpenguin

 

It became useless until just last week actually when I cobbled together a PC for my mom to write emails off of, as when I upgraded I went to a DDR RAM mobo.

 

Damn... DDR ram was a nightmare for me. I actually held oiff upgrading for awhile before I was willing to try figuring out the DDR landscape. It seemed like they started and discontinued a different kind or speed DDR memory every month for awhile.

--bornagainpenguin (Well I'm glad at least your Mom will get some use out of it. I expect her emails get there before she sends them at that much memory! ^o^ J/K!)

 

Unfortunatly she sees the use of email as a way to bug the snot out of me.

 

Ummm... d00d...that was a given!

[polls the members of DLP.net] Who here expected anything else...?

[no one raises their hands]

--bornagainpenguin (who recalls not so fondly the erly days of his Mother getting online and sending him constant emails about how Billy Gates was gonna send her money for forwarding email... no wait that was last week-- for the third time ..)

 

Azureus is so bloated

 

Yeah it is, but I've yet to find another program that does it's job to the same level of satisfaction for me.

 

Well it finally died.

Tried to turn it on yesterday and it won't even boot.

 

Well if you can (and have a broadband connection to the net) try and see if there's a way you can get your hands on a 'Live' cd edition of Linux from a magazine or something (maybe you have a Linux geek friend in RL?) and you can use that to get your box online until you can afford the new hard drive.

--bornagainpenguin