povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> "Rudy Velthuis" <rve### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
> 
> >Yep, that says it all. Windows (whether 95, 98 or NT) is a memory hog. No
> >matter what application you start, no matter how much free RAM (you think)
> >you have, it's never enough. Windows seems to be swapping just for the sake
> >of it, IMHO.
> 
> I agree with that. I have 384mb RAM on my development machine (more than most
> people have of ram+swap combined) and NT -still- whines and bitches if it
> doesn't get a swap file. It wants swap and will use it regardless of physical
> memory, like it or not. I think if I put 2 gigabytes in the box, it'd -still-
> swap to disk. It's just the way the OS (both Windows and NT) is designed.

In light of this and the other comments in this thread I guess I will
begrudgingly accept the current system for what it is. It doesn't mean
I have to like it though.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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