A small swap file causes speed degradation because when NT/Win2K has to
expand it you get a fragmented swap file along with the overhead of the
creation process. If you create a large swap file it doesn't get fragmented
and the OS doesn't have to spend time expanding it after every reboot. I'd
say that 3x RAM will usually prevent these problems but that if you're swap
file in use is equal to the amount of physical RAM, then you need more RAM.
Dan
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Len,
Recommendations were not for IMail as much as they were for the OS! Just
repeating what I have heard here several times before.
I do recall that several here in the forum reported problems with Web MSG
going away after they did increase the swap file to 3X RAM.
Daniel Donnelly
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From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
> Daniel
>
> Can you explain this swap file business? A mail server shouldn�t be
> swapping at all or extremely little.
>
> What has ipswitch found in increasing the hardly used swap file to 3X
> memory size makes Imail work better?
>
> Len
>
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