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Swap file size
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. |
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"William Lurie" wrote in message ... 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. |
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pjp wrote:
"William Lurie" wrote in message ... 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. |
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William Lurie wrote:
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. The size of the pagefile has nothing to do with download speeds. For most XP users, System Managed size is mor than adequate. FWIW, I have 2GB of RAM in my PC. I use System Managed size. The current allocation is 2046MB (about the same amount of physical RAM). If you have performace problems and not enough RAM (and assuming there is no malware or any legit program hogging memory), then the surefire way to increase performance (although not download rates) is to add more RAM. If you want to download large files quicker, you need to get a faster Internet connection. More info on virtual memory: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php |
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Swap file size
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0400, William Lurie wrote:
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. Why don't you let Windows manage the virtual memory? XP is better at doing that than older Windows were, and there's really no good reason to have a fixed limit. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:02:13 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0400, William Lurie wrote: 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. Why don't you let Windows manage the virtual memory? XP is better at doing that than older Windows were, and there's really no good reason to have a fixed limit. Sorry, I should have made it ore explicit that this was a general recommendation. I can't think of any reason why swap file size would affect download speed, since the downloaded bytes are being written directly to the hard drive and not stored in virtual memory -- aside from a temporary buffer, of course. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:02:13 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0400, William Lurie wrote: 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. Why don't you let Windows manage the virtual memory? XP is better at doing that than older Windows were, and there's really no good reason to have a fixed limit. Sorry, I should have made it ore explicit that this was a general recommendation. I can't think of any reason why swap file size would affect download speed, since the downloaded bytes are being written directly to the hard drive and not stored in virtual memory -- aside from a temporary buffer, of course. Thanks for all the above. After the stuff is done downloading, the files are still so big that scrolling is a fits-and-starts proposition, and I'm abandoning that project as being just too unwieldy. And that applies to both Firefox and IE. |
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