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Message   RiverWind    Black Knight   Virtual Mem Sucks.   May 4, 1996
 12:52 PM *  

Re: Virtual Mem Sucks.

> Yes, go into the ControlPanel and change your virtual memory setting.
> Windows sets up a temporary swap file.  The size is based upon the ammount of
> free spance you have left.
> ---this is the end of a vnet compliant quoter---
> I'd say this has nothing to do with virtual memory, but rather with the fact
> that the FAT file system sucks.  For 850MB, even a 2 byte file takes up
> 16,384 bytes.  VBBS is really bad about this, since it had many 1, 2, 3, 4,
> and 5 byte files everywhere..  You can actually have only 600 bytes of files,
> actually taking 1 meg of disk space.  The easy cure to this is either move on
> to a better file system (or OS), or seperate a little 30-40 meg partition for
> vbbs's and other small little files so they would take up 1,024 bytes each,
> not 16,384.

get MagnaRAM, it makes Winn95 smart! <to a point> :) it tells the thing if a
filee is 8bit, 16bit, 32bit, whatever, instead of letting win95 think
EVERYTHING is 32bit! :)
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