re permanent swap file in article qlja i b usenet ins cwru edu ak cleveland freenet edu martin linsenbigler writes when i first setup windows using the self load mode it grabbed about megs of swap file space my meg hd was nearly empty at that time i deleted windows for a time and recently reloaded now my hd is nearly full and windows just took megs one of the rules for a permanent swap file is that it must be contiguous non fragmented space i suspect that is more responsible for the difference than the amount of free disk in your case i have read somewhere that the best rule of thumb is have your permanent swap file the same size as your regular ram size i have megs of ram and windows took meg perm swap file works very well in fact with my available hd space about megs it won t let me make the swap file any bigger you should change your virtual mem swap file to megs i think that is what you said your ram was it depends on what you are running we had to increase our swap file i think it is now mb when some applications couldn t run without everything else closed mike lipsie work mlipsie ca merl com mitsubishi electronic research laboratory home mikel dosbears uucp
