pjp wrote:
"William Lurie" wrote in message
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I think I need to increase size of swap file. I have a monstrous file
(apparently greater than 1 GB) to download and it is taking intolerably
long. Using XP Home/ SP3 with 1.5 GB RAM. Plenty of empty space on the hard
drive.

Advice regarding the problem and how to increase swap file (if that's the
solution) will be appreciated.

There's lots of reasons for a slow download, swap file size isn't one of
them. Think in terms of how many "other" computers each peice of that file
has to transit (and they may take different routes) where any and every
otrher computer could be the bottleneck.


Thanks for the good points. In this case, I don't think that particular
reasoning applies because the source is family-owned and operated and
dedicated with passwords. However, I did find out how to increase
from1.5G to 2.27 GB swap file and it didn't help.