Swap File Necessary?

[Midwestboi]

I was wondering if anyone has competely disabled their Windows Swap File ability and whether or not there are any problems with disabling it? I have 512MB Ram, and that should be enough to handle most anything thrown at it. But I want to know if anyone else has disable the Swap File before I go ahead and do so.

Thanks.

mwb

[Stryker_abx]

A question that is being asked more and more these days as ram prices fall through the floor.

Regardless of how much ram you have be it 256/512/1Gig of ram there are alot of apps that MUST have access too a swap file regardless of wether the system ram is at 20/30/40% used.
These apps have been designed to purposely bypass ram for certain reasons and require that a small portion of swap file be available period.
All programs will use ram to the best of it's ability but also alot of those programs do require a swap file to function properly. I strongly suggest against disabling your swapfile but instead make a permanent swapfile at around 64meg and reducing that to 32meg permanent if no trouble is experienced..

I have 512meg in my setup:

Program X uses 150 meg of ram leaving me with 360meg ram free.

But program X also requires that it have 5 or 10 meg of swapfile available to it so it can store info in the swapfile..

[Midwestboi]

Thanks for the info. I've been running my system for awhile now having disabled the swap file, and haven't experienced one problem with it. I normally have a seperate partition to use only for the swap file, and had it set for a minimum size of 250MB- so that it didn't have to keep increasing/decreasing. However, I'll take your advice and just reduce the minimum size and leave it be. I just hate having so much memory, and having an OS that doesn't utilize it.

-mwb