Swap File Growth

[erpdude8]

Mine is of fixed size (500MB) with 1.75GB of RAM (WinME) so it never shrink or grows.

The advantage of using a swap file of fixed size, especially if it is located on the system drive is that it avoids it becoming (heavily) fragmented when it grows and affect performance.

I never found that ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 was a good setting for optimal performance btw.

and I totally agree on using a "fixed" size swap file to minimize performance loss, though I'd set it to the amount of physical RAM installed (1.7Gb) if you run very large programs. just be sure you have a large enough hard drive to hold the fixed size page file.

If you already have a superfast PC, eidenk, then ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 is not really needed, especially if you use a superfast hard drive with very high RPM

[Dblake1]

You could get FreshUI from http://www.freshdevices.com

Edited October 30, 2007 by Dblake1

[cluberti]

You could also consider running filemon while you see the file growing to determine who's writing to it.